Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
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 Necrocarcinus according to M. J. Rathbun 1935
See also Franţescu et al. 2016, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2016 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Necrocarcinus bodrakensis, Necrocarcinus gorbenkoi, Necrocarcinus hodgesi, Necrocarcinus inornatus, Necrocarcinus labeschii, Necrocarcinus mariae, Necrocarcinus minutus, Necrocarcinus pawpawensis, Necrocarcinus pierrensis, Necrocarcinus rathbunae, Necrocarcinus senonensis, Necrocarcinus tauricus, Necrocarcinus undecimtuberculatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Frisco Railroad Bridge (No5710), 2 1/2 mi NW of Blue Springs, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Ripley Formation of Mississippi.
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Frisco Railroad Bridge (No. 5710), 2 1/2 mi NW of Blue Springs
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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