Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Alternative combinations: Cancer (Romaleon) granti, Cancer granti
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1932. A new species of Cancer from the Pliocene of the Los Angeles basin. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 22(1):19
Belongs to Metacarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Nations 1975, Rathbun 1932 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000
Sister taxa: Cancer (Metacarcinus) magister, Metacarcinus anthonyi, Metacarcinus danai, Metacarcinus davidi, Metacarcinus goederti, Metacarcinus gracilis, Metacarcinus izumoensis, Metacarcinus jenniferae, Metacarcinus magister, Metacarcinus minutoserratus, Metacarcinus novaezelandiae, Metacarcinus starri, Metacarcinus tenax
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well, which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Pico Formation of California
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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