Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae
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 Archaeopus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Archaeopus antennatus, Archaeopus bicornutus, Archaeopus diabolus, Archaeopus ezoensis, Archaeopus lunicarinus, Archaeopus rathbunae, Archaeopus rostratus, Archaeopus schenki, Archaeopus vancouverensis
Type specimen: UNAM IGM-7953. Its type locality is Ensenada Decapods, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Rosario? Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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