Xanthilites traubi Förster 1970 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae

Full reference: R. Förster. 1970. Zwei neue brachyure Krebse aus dem Paläozän des Haunsberges nördlich von Salzburg. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 10:241-252

Belongs to Xanthilites according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Förster 1970

Sister taxa: Xanthilites alabamensis, Xanthilites bowerbanki, Xanthilites gerthi, Xanthilites interpunctatus, Xanthilites pentagonalis, Xanthilites rathbunae, Xanthilites verrucoides

Type specimen: BSPG 1943 II 277, a carapace. Its type locality is Oichinger Graben, ESE of Point 441, which is in a Thanetian marine sandstone in Austria.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Oichinger Graben, ESE of Point 441

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