Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Necronectes vaughani Rathbun is now N. vicksburgensis (Stenzel) == Portunus (?) vicksburgensis Stenzel (from Rathbun, 1936, Corrections of Names of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans)
Full reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1935. Middle Eocene and Oligocene Decapod Crustaceans from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The American Midland Naturalist 16(3):379-400
Belongs to Portunites according to Duplicate 1935
See also Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Stenzel 1935
Sister taxa: Portunites alaskensis, Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites incertus, Portunites insculpta, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites nodosa, Portunites rosenfeldi, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mint Spring Bayou Decapods, which is in an Oligocene carbonate marl/mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in Mississippi
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Portunites vicksburgensis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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