Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Alternative combinations: Eucorystes exiguus, Notopocorystes (Cretacoranina) exiguus
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192
Belongs to Notopocorystes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Glaessner 1980 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Notopocorystes (Notopocorystes), Notopocorystes bituberculatus, Notopocorystes denisae, Notopocorystes eichhorni, Notopocorystes intermedius, Notopocorystes normani, Notopocorystes parvus, Notopocorystes ripleyensis, Notopocorystes stokesi, Notopocorystes xizangensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Pipanyimili Creek, which is in a Cenomanian marine claystone in the Bathurst Island Formation of Australia
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Pipanyimili Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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