Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Alternative combination: Portunites incerta
Full reference: T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44
Belongs to Portunites according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Bell 1858, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Portunites alaskensis, Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites insculpta, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites nodosa, Portunites rosenfeldi, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum, Portunites vicksburgensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at No. 2 Pit, Aveley, Essex - London Clay (Eocene of the United Kingdom)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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