Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Decapoda Scientific name Componocancer roberti | Phylum Arthropoda Class Malacostraca Infraorder Brachyura Rank Superfamily | |
Similar Dairoidea, Homoloidea, Retroplumidae, Eriphioidea, Corystidae | ||
Componocancer roberti is an unusual species of fossil crab described in 2008. It lived in the Albian age (Early Cretaceous) in what is now Montana. The species is unlike any other described crab, and is therefore placed in its own family and superfamily.
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