Malacostraca - Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Synonym: Cycloxanthus Milne-Edwards 1850
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179
Parent taxon: Zanthopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968, Bell 1858, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Kooser and Orr 1973, Luque et al. 2017, Maury 1930, Rathbun 1926, Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer 2003, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1999, Stenzel 1934 and Van Straelen 1933
Sister taxa: Amekicarcinus, Fredericia, Harpactocarcinus, Harpactoxanthopsis, Lovaracarcinus, Martinetta, Neozanthopsis
Subtaxa: Zanthopsis bartholomaeensis Zanthopsis bispinosa Zanthopsis brasiliana Zanthopsis carolinensis Zanthopsis cretacea Zanthopsis dufouri Zanthopsis errans Zanthopsis hendersonianus Zanthopsis leachii Zanthopsis milleri Zanthopsis minor Zanthopsis multispinosa Zanthopsis nodosa Zanthopsis peytoni Zanthopsis sternbergi Zanthopsis unispinosa Zanthopsis vulgaris
Type: Cancer leachii
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon collection)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of France (1), Haiti (2), Iran (1), North Atlantic (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (15: California, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 34 collections including 38 occurrences
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