Parallelogastrus Franţescu 2013 (spiny lobster)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae

Full reference: O. Franţescu. 2013. Cretaceous lobsters from the Pawpaw Shale of northeast Texas. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 268(3):341-359

Parent taxon: Palinuridae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2015

See also Franţescu 2013

Sister taxa: Archaeocarabus, Archaeopalinurus, Eolinurus, Eurycarpus, Jasus, Justitia, Linuparus, Palaeopalinurellus, Palaeopalinurus, Palinurina, Palinurus, Panulirus, Phalangites, Phyllamphion, Projasus, Puerulus, Rugafarius, Yunnanopalinura

Subtaxa: Parallelogastrus gabii

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Type: Parallelogastrus gabii

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Robert Reid Collections (Cretaceous of Texas)

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