Icriocarcinus

Icriocarcinus
Temporal range: Campanian/Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Goneplacidae
Genus: Icriocarcinus
Bishop, 1988
Species: I. xestos
Binomial name
Icriocarcinus xestos
Bishop, 1988

Icriocarcinus is an extinct genus of crab from the Maastrichtian or Campanian of Baja California, Mexico, and Merced County, California, United States.[1][2]

References

  1. G. A. Bishop (1988). "Two crabs, Xandaros sternbergi (Rathbun 1926) n. gen., and Icriocarcinus xestos n. gen., n. sp., from the Late Cretaceous of San Diego County, California, USA, and Baja California Norte, Mexico". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 (5): 245–257.
  2. Torrey G. Nyborg, Francisco J. Vega & Harry F. Filkorn (2003). "New Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic decapod crustaceans from California, USA: implications for the origination of taxa in the eastern North Pacific". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (2/3): 165–168.


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