Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Alternative combination: Portunites insculptus
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155
Belongs to Portunites according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1926 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002
Sister taxa: Portunites alaskensis, Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites incertus, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites nodosa, Portunites rosenfeldi, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum, Portunites vicksburgensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: California, Oregon collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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