Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae

Alternative combination: Sagittiformosus carabus

Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1988. New fossil crabs, Plagiopthalmus izetti, Latheticocarcinus sharpiroi, and Sagittiformosus carabus (Crustacea, Decapoda), from the western interior Cretaceous, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(2):375-381

Belongs to Cenomanocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2016

See also Bishop 1988 and Karasawa et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Cenomanocarcinus armatus, Cenomanocarcinus beardi, Cenomanocarcinus boedekeri, Cenomanocarcinus cantabricus, Cenomanocarcinus cookseyi, Cenomanocarcinus dissimilis, Cenomanocarcinus hierosolymitanus, Cenomanocarcinus inflatus, Cenomanocarcinus multituberculatus, Cenomanocarcinus nammourensis, Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis, Cenomanocarcinus renfroae, Cenomanocarcinus robertsi, Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis, Cenomanocarcinus tenuicarinatus, Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni

Type specimen: USGS DI0669. Its type locality is USGS DI0669, which is in a Turonian marine horizon in the Frontier Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS DI0669

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.