Malacostraca - Decapoda - Erymidae
Full reference: F.J. Vega, A. Garassino, and R. Zapata Jaime. 2013. Enoploclytia tepeyacensis n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Erymidae) from the Cretaceous (Campanian) of Coahuila, NE Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 65(2):207-211
Belongs to Enoploclytia according to F.J. Vega et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Enoploclytia (Palaeastacus), Enoploclytia armata, Enoploclytia augustobonae, Enoploclytia collignoni, Enoploclytia edwardsi, Enoploclytia eocenica, Enoploclytia gardnerae, Enoploclytia gigantea, Enoploclytia granulicauda, Enoploclytia imagei, Enoploclytia leachi, Enoploclytia leachii, Enoploclytia minor, Enoploclytia porteri, Enoploclytia salviensis, Enoploclytia sculpta, Enoploclytia seitzi, Enoploclytia sussexiensis, Enoploclytia tenuidigitata, Enoploclytia terrareginae, Enoploclytia triglypta, Enoploclytia tumimanus, Enoploclytia wenoensis, Enoploclytia wintoni
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Jimenez Dessau Chalk (Cretaceous of Mexico)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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