Colombicarcinus laevis Karasawa et al. 2014 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa, C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann and J. Luque. 2014. Phylongeny and Classification of Raninoida (Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Crustacean Biology 34(2):216-272

Belongs to Colombicarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Between the village of Curití and the town of San Gil (Cretaceous of Colombia)

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