Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mathildellidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1916. Description of a new genus and species of fossil crab from Port Townsend, Washington. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 41:344-346
Parent taxon: Mathildellidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2022
See also Beschin et al. 2015, Beschin et al. 2016, Beschin et al. 2018, Beschin et al. 2006, De Angeli and Beschin 2008, De Angeli et al. 2010, Karasawa 1992, Karasawa 1993, Karasawa and Kato 2003, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008, Muller and Collins 1991, Quayle and Collins 1981, Rathbun 1916, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer et al. 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Tucker and Feldmann 1990
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Branchioplax albertii Branchioplax ballingi Branchioplax bidentata Branchioplax carmanahensis Branchioplax concinna Branchioplax cordata Branchioplax parva Branchioplax pentagonalis Branchioplax rossii Branchioplax sulcata Branchioplax washingtoniana
Type: Branchioplax washingtoniana
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (2), United States (4: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Italy (8), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
Total: 28 collections including 34 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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