Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

Full reference: O. E. Franţescu, F. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2016. Cretaceous fossil Raninoida De Haan, 1839 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from northeast Texas. Journal of Paleontology 90(6):1118-1132

Parent taxon: Orithopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Franţescu et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Aetocarcinus, Anoplocarcinus, Bellcarcinus, Cherpiocarcinus, Chronocancer, Colombicarcinus, Cristella, Marycarcinus, Orithopsis, Paradoxicarcinus, Paradoxilissopsa, Planocarcinus, Shazella, Silvacarcinus

Subtaxa: Texicancer renfroae

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at North of Watauga (Cretaceous of Texas)

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