Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae

Alternative combination: Titanocarcinus purdyi

Full reference: W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26

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

See also Blow and Manning 1996 and Schweitzer et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Lobonotus australis, Lobonotus bakeri, Lobonotus beschini, Lobonotus brazosensis, Lobonotus foerstei, Lobonotus lobulata, Lobonotus mexicanus, Lobonotus natchitochensis, Lobonotus orientalis, Lobonotus sandersi, Lobonotus sculptus, Lobonotus sturgeoni, Archaeopilumnus caelatus

Type specimen: USNM 484571, a carapace

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 26883, Martin Marietta Berkeley quarry (Eocene of South Carolina)

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