Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Full reference: J.S.H. Collins, R. Higgs, and B. Cortitula. 1994. A new crab, Costacopluma bifida (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Paleocene of Venezuela. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 21:29-34
Belongs to Costacopluma according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Collins et al. 1994 and Luque et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Costacopluma australis, Costacopluma binodosa, Costacopluma bishopi, Costacopluma concava, Costacopluma grayi, Costacopluma maroccana, Costacopluma mexicana, Costacopluma nordestina, Costacopluma salamanca, Costacopluma senegalensis, Costacopluma squiresi, Costacopluma texana
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Borehole VLC-812, Lake Maracaibo (Paleocene of Venezuela)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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