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Cancer starri is a species of extinct crab from the Early Miocene. Specimens of this species have been foun in the Clallam Formation and the underlying Pysht Formation on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. this species lived with several other crab genera and a mud shrimp of the Callianassa genus. This species has been assigned to the Cancer subgenus Metacarcinus by the describing authors.[1]
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- ^ Berglund, Ross E. & Goedert, James L.; 1996 "A New Crab (Brachyura: Cancridae) from Lower Miocene Rocks of the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington" Journal of Paleontology 70:5 pp. 830-835
