Glyphithyreus wetherelli Bell 1858 (crab)

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

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