Dioratiopus scotti Bishop 1983 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Longodromitidae

Full reference: G.A. Bishop. 1983. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Lower Cretaceous, Glen Rose Limestone of central Texas. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 20:27-55

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

See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 2011

Sister taxa: Dioratiopus angusta, Dioratiopus dawsonensis, Dioratiopus depressa, Dioratiopus hearttailensis, Dioratiopus latteri, Dioratiopus primitivus, Dioratiopus salebrosus, Dioratiopus spinosa

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Dioratiopus scotti in the database

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