Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cretapsaridae

Full reference: J. Luque, L. Xing, D. E. G. Briggs, E. G. Clark, A. Duque, J. Hui, H. Mai and R. C. McKellar. 2021. Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous. Science Advances 7(43):eabj5689

Parent taxon: Brachyura according to C.E. Schweitzer and R.M. Feldmann 2023

See also Luque et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Cretapsara

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Angbamo (Dexu Institute of Palaeontology) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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