Malacostraca - Decapoda - Panopeidae
Alternative combination: Plagiolophus wetherelli
Full reference: T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44
Belongs to Glyphithyreus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Bell 1858, Collins and Morris 1978, Fraaije and Pennings 2006, Fraaije et al. 2007, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2004, Rathbun 1926, Secrétan 1971 and Via 1959
Sister taxa: Glyphithyreus bendensis, Glyphithyreus ellipticus, Glyphithyreus ellipticusdup, Glyphithyreus formosus, Glyphithyreus sulcatus
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (3 collections), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1), Spain (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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