Malacostraca - Decapoda - Oregoniidae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzales-Barba and F. J. Vega. 2002. New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Mexican fossil decapods. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 59:1-43
Belongs to Oregonia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2002
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MHN-UABCS/SJ2/15-1764a and b. Its type locality is San Juan de La Costa Decapods, which is in a Chattian marginal marine mudstone in the El Cien Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Mexico (1 collection)
• Paleogene of Mexico (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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