Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
Alternative combination: Necrocarcinus wrighti
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, D. M. Tshudy, and M. R. A. Thomson. 1993. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir 28:1-41
Belongs to Hadrocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Feldmann et al. 1993, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Hadrocarcinus carinatus, Hadrocarcinus tectilacus
Type specimen: BAS IN.2237. Its type locality is Locality 10, Western San José Pass, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in the Santa Marta Formation of Antarctica.
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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