Scyllarides tuberculatus was a slipper lobster, a broad flattened relative of spiny lobsters. Instead of long whip-like antennae, slipper lobsters have enlarged plate-shaped antennae and often spend the day hidden on the seabed or in shelter before becoming more active while feeding.

Like living slipper lobsters it was probably a nocturnal or low-light predator and scavenger, taking molluscs and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Its flattened, armoured body would have made it look very different from the long-bodied clawed lobsters sharing the London Clay sea.