Pustulina dawsoni Woodward 1900 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Erymidae

Alternative combinations: Eryma dawsoni, Phlyctisoma dawsoni

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1900. Further notes on podophthalmous crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous Formation of British Columbia. The Geological Magazine, Decade IV 7:392-401

Belongs to Pustulina according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2015

See also Feldmann and McPherson 1980, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Woodward 1900

Sister taxa: Pustulina calloviensis, Pustulina colossea, Pustulina elegans, Pustulina minuta, Pustulina occitana, Pustulina perroni, Pustulina pseudobabeaui, Pustulina scabra, Pustulina sinemuriana, Pustulina spinulata, Pustulina suevica, Pustulina tuberculata, Pustulina victori, Phlyctisoma sinemuriana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Northeast side of Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Spray Formation of Canada

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Northeast side of Hornby Island

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