Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae

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

Belongs to Planocorystes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Franţescu et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 559030. Its type locality is North of Watauga, which is in an Albian marine claystone in the Paw Paw Formation of Texas.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at North of Watauga

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