Mexicania Garassino et al. 2013 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Sicyoniidae

Full reference: A. Garassino, F.J. Vega, L. S.R.S. Calvillo-Canadell Cevallos-Ferriz and M.A. Coutiño. 2013. New decapod crustacean assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Chiapas, Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlung 269(3):261-270

Parent taxon: Sicyoniidae according to A. Garassino et al. 2013

See also Schweitzer et al. 2023

Sister taxon: Sicyonia

Subtaxa: Mexicania grijalvaensis

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Type: Mexicania grijalvaensis

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at El Chango Quarry (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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