Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeoxanthopsidae

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer. 2005. The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838. Journal of Paleontology 79(2):277-295

Parent taxon: Palaeoxanthopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Schweitzer 2005 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Jakobsenius, Lobulata, Palaeoxantho, Palaeoxanthopsis, Paraverrucoides, Remia, Verrucoides

Subtaxa: Rocacarcinus gerthi

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Type: Xanthilites gerthi

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Rocacarcinus in the database

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