Paguristes whitteni Bishop 1983

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Annuntidiogenidae

Alternative combination: Parapaguristes whitteni

Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1983. Fossil Decapod Crustacea from the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation, Union County, Mississippi. Journal of Crustacean Biology 3(3):417-430

Belongs to Paguristes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Bishop 1983 and Bishop 1986

Sister taxa: Paguristes aciculus, Paguristes baldoensis, Paguristes brevirostris, Paguristes chipolensis, Paguristes clampensis, Paguristes cserhatensis, Paguristes extentus, Paguristes florae, Paguristes frigoscopulus, Paguristes frontalis, Paguristes hirtus, Paguristes hokoensis, Paguristes johnsoni, Paguristes laurentae, Paguristes lineatuberculatus, Paguristes longisetosus, Paguristes lymanni, Paguristes mexicanus, Paguristes oligotuberculatus, Paguristes ouachitensis, Paguristes paucituberculatus, Paguristes perlatus, Paguristes prealpinus, Paguristes pugil, Paguristes purpureantennatus, Paguristes santamartaensis, Paguristes squamosus, Paguristes subaequalis, Paguristes sulcatus, Paguristes tuberculatus, Paguristes vallionensis, Paguristes wheeleri

Type specimen: GSCM 1683. Its type locality is GAB37, Blue Springs Locality, which is in a Maastrichtian coastal mudstone in the Coon Creek Formation of Mississippi.

Distribution: found only at GAB37, Blue Springs Locality

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