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North Texas Cretaceous References:



A New Variety of Cretaceous Decapod from Texas * Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. FIELDIANA: ZOOLOGY, VOLUME 37
A new cuticular microstructure of Cretacoranina punctata (Decapoda) from the Pawpaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of northeastern Texas Adel E Haj Kent State; thesis/manuscript; 2000
Conchostracans from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Paluxy Formation, Texas * Paul Tasch Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1967), pp. 256-259
Decapod crustaceans from the Cretaceous of Texas * H. B. Stenzel Contributions to Geology, UT Bulletin No. 4401, pp. 401–477; 1944
Decapod crustaceans from the Woodbine Formation of Texas Stenzel, H. B. U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 242: 212-217; 1952
Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Early Cretaceous Glen Rose Limestone of Central Texas Bishop, G. A. San Diego Society of Natural History Transactions, 20, 27-55.; 1983
Functional morphology and taxonomic significance of a novel cuticular structure in Cretaceous raninid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Raninidae) * Haj, A. E. and Feldmann, Rodney M. Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, no. 3, p. 472-485; May 2002
Homolopsis pikeae, New Species (Decapoda), a Crab from the Cretaceous of Texas * Gale A. Bishop, Nancy A. Brannen Journal of Crustacean Biology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 317-323
New Linuparid crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas Davidson, Edward Sheldon Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution, pp 70-76; 1963
Re-evaluation of the genus Xanthosia Bell, 1863 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae) and description of two new species from the Cretaceous of Texas * C. Schweitzer Hopkins, Eric W. Salva, and Rodney M. Feldmann Journal of Paleontology, 73: 77-90; Jan. 1999
Decapod crustaceans from the Pflugerville Member, Austin Formation (Late Cretaceous: Campanian) of Texas Beikirch, D.W., and Feldmann, R.M. Journal of Paleontology, v. 54, p.309-324, 1980.
Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA. Feldmann, R. M., C. E. Schweitzer, B. Dattilo, and J. O. Farlow. Palaeontology, 1337-1346, 2011
Early Cretaceous (Albian) decapods from the Glen Rose and Walnut formations of Texas, USA. Schweitzer, C. E., R. M. Feldmann, W. L. Rader, and O. Franţescu. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 42: 1-22, 2016.
Cretaceous fossil Raninoida DeHaan, 1839 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from northeast Texas. Franţescu, O. D., R. M. Feldmann, and C. E. Schweitzer. Journal of Paleontology, 90: 1118-1132, 2016.
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A comparison between cladistic and systematic analyses of the species of Xanthosia (Decapoda: Xanthidae): Salva, E.W., Schweitzer-Hopkins, C.E., and Feldmann, R.M., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 28, no. 6, p. A-239, 1996.
Combining paleontological and biological criteria within the Xanthoidea (Decapoda): Toward a new view of decapod systematics, evolution, and paleobiogeography: Schweitzer, C. E., and Feldmann, R. M., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v.
33, no. 6, p. A-378. 2001
New cuticular microstructure of Cretacoranina punctata (Decapoda) from the Pawpaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of northeastern Texas, 54 p., Haj, A. E., Jr., M.S. 2000.
Systematics, paleobiogeography, and paleoecology of Cretaceous decapod faunas from northeast Texas. Franţescu, O. D. 2013. Ph.D.


Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Rathbun, M. J. Geological Society of America Special Paper 2; 1935
Hunting Cretaceous crabs Meyer, J.P. Lapidary Journal, September 1991, pp. 61-68.
Xanthosia occidentalis Bishop, 1985, and Xanthosia spinosa, New Species, Two Late Cretaceous Crabs from the Pierre Shale of the Western Interior Bishop, G. A. Journal of Crustacean Biology 11 (2), 305-314; 1991