Palinurus veronicae 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

Belongs to Palinurus according to O. Franţescu 2013

Sister taxa: Palinurus baumbergicus, Palinurus elephas, Palinurus palaciosi, Palinurus sauerweinorum, Palinurus teruzzii, Palinurus trigonus, Palinurus woodwardi, Astacodes kamptneri, Astacodes falcifer, Astacodes davisi, Astacodes strambergensis, Astacodes woodwardi, Astacodes maxwelli

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

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

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