Xanthosia wintoni Rathbun 1935 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Etyidae

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160

Belongs to Xanthosia according to C. E. Schweitzer Hopkins et al. 1999

See also Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2012 and Schweitzer et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Xanthosia americana, Xanthosia arcuata, Xanthosia buchii, Xanthosia buteonis, Xanthosia danielae, Xanthosia delicata, Xanthosia elegans, Xanthosia fischeri, Xanthosia fossa, Xanthosia gibbosa, Xanthosia gracilis, Xanthosia granulosa, Xanthosia occidentalis, Xanthosia robertsi, Xanthosia sakoi, Xanthosia semiornata, Xanthosia similis, Xanthosia socialis, Xanthosia spinosa, Xanthosia zoquiapensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is SMU Loc241, which is in an Albian marine mudstone in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at SMU Loc. 241

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