Description: Carapace suborbicular, globose; rostrum steeply downturned, deeply sulcate; orbits obliquely directed; anterolateral and lateral margins with one or two spines according to growth size, another spine behind branchiocardiac furrow; transverse pair of nodes on metagastric lobe, one on cardiac region and one on each epi- and mesobranchial lobes. Dorsal surface smooth anteriorly, rugose posteriorly
(Description from: A guide to the fossil Decapoda (Crustacea: Axiidea, Anomura, Brachyura) of the British Isles)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclass: Multicrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Superorder: Eucarida
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Dromiacea
Superfamily: Dromioidea
Family: Dromiidae (Closest living relatives)
Genus: Dromilites
Species: Dromilites bucklandii
Location: Isle of Sheppey
Image accreditation:
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/b21561?listIndex=1&listCount=31
References:
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/b21561?listIndex=1&listCount=31
https://www.marinespecies.org/traits./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1594325
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787819301191
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/813.pdf
Further reading:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/813.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787819301191#fig0020
Papers:
Joe S.H. Collins, Claire J.T. Mellish, Andrew J. Ross, Phillip R. Crabb, Stephen K. Donovan (2020), A guide to the fossil Decapoda (Crustacea: Axiidea, Anomura, Brachyura) of the British Isles
Barry W.M. van Bakel, Ninon Robin, Sylvain Charbonnier, and Jeff Saward (2017), Revision of Dromilites bucklandii (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura): Type material revealing its real identity, a junior synonym, and a new species