Cenomanocarcinus van Straelen 1936 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae

Synonym: Sagittiformosus Bishop 1988

Full reference: V. van Straelen. 1936. Crustacés décapodes nouveaux ou peu connus de l'époque Crétacique. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(45):1-50

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

See also Bishop 1988, Karasawa et al. 2014, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2016, Schweitzer et al. 2016, Sepkoski 2002 and van Bakel et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Campylostoma, Corazzatocarcinus, Hasaracancer

Subtaxa: Cenomanocarcinus armatus Cenomanocarcinus beardi Cenomanocarcinus boedekeri Cenomanocarcinus cantabricus Cenomanocarcinus carabus Cenomanocarcinus cookseyi Cenomanocarcinus dissimilis Cenomanocarcinus hierosolymitanus Cenomanocarcinus inflatus Cenomanocarcinus multituberculatus Cenomanocarcinus nammourensis Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Cenomanocarcinus renfroae Cenomanocarcinus robertsi Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis Cenomanocarcinus tenuicarinatus Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni

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Type: Cenomanocarcinus inflatus

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), Colombia (5), France (4), Mexico (4), Nigeria (2), Spain (1), United States (16: Delaware, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 34 collections including 35 occurrences

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