Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
Alternative combination: Prehepatus pawpawensis
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160
Belongs to Necrocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2016
See also Fraaye and Collins 1987, Jagt et al. 2010, Rathbun 1935 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Necrocarcinus bodrakensis, Necrocarcinus gorbenkoi, Necrocarcinus hodgesi, Necrocarcinus inornatus, Necrocarcinus labeschii, Necrocarcinus mariae, Necrocarcinus minutus, Necrocarcinus oklahomensis, Necrocarcinus pierrensis, Necrocarcinus rathbunae, Necrocarcinus senonensis, Necrocarcinus tauricus, Necrocarcinus undecimtuberculatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is 4 mi SW of Fort Worth, 1/2 mi S of Baptist Seminary, which is in an Aptian marine claystone in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at 4 mi SW of Fort Worth, 1/2 mi S of Baptist Seminary
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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