Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dromiidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and C. E. Schweitzer. 2019. Earliest known sponge crab (Brachyura, Dromiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation, New Jersey, USA. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 45:1-6

Parent taxon: Dromiidae according to C.E. Schweitzer and R.M. Feldmann 2024

See also Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019

Sister taxa: Austrodromidia, Basadromia, Basinotopinae, Cryptodromia, Dromia, Dromidia, Dromidiopsis, Dromiidarum, Dromiinae, Dromilites, Epigodromia, Epipedodromia, Fultodromia, Haledromia, Hypoconchinae, Kerepesia, Kierionopsis, Pseudodromilites, Quinquerugatus, Stimdromia, Tumidodromia, Vincentdromia

Subtaxa: Costadromia hajzeri

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Type: Costadromia hajzeri

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Big Brook (Navesink) (Cretaceous of New Jersey)

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