Podopilumnus fittoni M'Coy 1849 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galenidae

Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179

Belongs to Podopilumnus according to F. M'Coy 1849

Sister taxa: Galene bispinosa, Galene granulifera, Galene litoralistemp, Galene obscura, Galene stipata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Greensand of Lyme Regis (University of Cambridge collection), which is in an Albian marine sandstone in the Upper Greensand Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Greensand of Lyme Regis (University of Cambridge collection)

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