Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

Alternative combination: Portunites nodosus

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. New fossil portunids from Washington, USA, and Argentina and a re-evaluation of generic and family relationships within the Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology 74(4):636-653

Belongs to Portunites according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000

Sister taxa: Portunites alaskensis, Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites incertus, Portunites insculpta, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites rosenfeldi, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum, Portunites vicksburgensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is RB-32, Kydikabbit Point, which is in a Priabonian submarine fan siltstone in the Hoko River Formation of Washington

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at RB-32, Kydikabbit Point

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