Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155
Belongs to Portunites according to A. B. Tucker and R. M. Feldmann 1990
See also Nyborg et al. 2003, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2003 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites incertus, Portunites insculpta, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites nodosa, Portunites rosenfeldi, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum, Portunites vicksburgensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Colombia)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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