New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Mexican fossil decapods

C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzales-Barba, and and F. J. Vega

2002

Article

Journal of Paleontology 76(6):1-43

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Taxa discussed in this work:

• Amydrocarcinus
• Amydrocarcinus dantei
• Archaeopus mexicanus
• Dardanus mexicanus
• Eriosachila bajaensis
• Icriocarcinus xestos
• Levicyclus
• Levicyclus tepetate
• Lophoranina bishopi
• Necronectes nodosa
• Oregonia
• Oregonia spinifera
• Xandaros sternbergi

Taxonomy:

• Xandaros sternbergi belongs to Xandaros - Rathbun (1926)
• Lobonotus mexicanus belongs to Lobonotus - Rathbun (1930)
• Icriocarcinus xestos belongs to Icriocarcinus - Bishop (1988)
• Lophoranina bishopi belongs to Lophoranina - Squires and Demetrio (1992)
• Dardanus mexicanus belongs to Dardanus - Vega et al. (2001)
• Eriosachila bajaensis belongs to Eriosachila - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Oregonia spinifera belongs to Oregonia - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Levicyclus belongs to Atelecyclidae - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Levicyclus tepetate belongs to Levicyclus - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Necronectes nodosa belongs to Necronectes - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Archaeopus mexicanus belongs to Archaeopus - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Amydrocarcinus dantei belongs to Amydrocarcinus - Schweitzer et al. (2002)
• Xandaros belongs to Xanthidae - Schweitzer et al. (2002)