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Dakoticancridae

Dakoticancridae

Overview

Dakoticancridae Rathbun, 1917

Common Name: Crab

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Rectangular to oval-shaped carapace.

        SIZE:

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Carnivore

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Brooks, H. K. et al., 1969. Decapoda, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volume 2. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 651 pp.


Genera of Dakoticancridae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway