Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Full reference: F. J. Vega, P. García-Barrera, M. Carmen Perrilliat, M. A. Coutiño, and R. Mariño-Pérez. 2006. El Espinal, a new plattenkalk facies locality from the Lower Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 23(3):323-333
Belongs to Palinurus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Vega et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Palinurus baumbergicus, Palinurus elephas, Palinurus sauerweinorum, Palinurus trigonus, Palinurus woodwardi
Type specimen: IHNFG-2841, an exoskeleton (molt). Its type locality is El Espinal Quarry, which is in an Aptian paralic claystone/limestone in the Sierra Madre Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at El Espinal Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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