Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and R. K. Bearlin. 1988. Linoparus korura n. sp. (Decapoda: Palinura) from the Bortonian (Eocene) of New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology 62(2):245-250
Belongs to Linuparus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Linuparus (Linuparus), Linuparus adkinsi, Linuparus africanus, Linuparus bererensis, Linuparus bigranulatus, Linuparus canadensis, Linuparus carteri, Linuparus dentatus, Linuparus duelmenensis, Linuparus dzheirantuiensis, Linuparus eocenicus, Linuparus euthymei, Linuparus grimmeri, Linuparus hantscheli, Linuparus japonicus, Linuparus keysi, Linuparus kleinfelderi, Linuparus laevicephalus, Linuparus macellarii, Linuparus petkovici, Linuparus pustulosus, Linuparus qualitus, Linuparus richardsi, Linuparus schluteri, Linuparus scyllariformis, Linuparus secretanae, Linuparus shacklefordae, Linuparus sordidus, Linuparus spinosus, Linuparus stolleyi, Linuparus straili, Linuparus tarrantensis, Linuparus texanus, Linuparus trigonus, Linuparus vancouverensis, Linuparus watkinsi, Linuparus wilcoxensis, Linuparus (Podocrates) spinosus, Linuparus (Podocratus) richardsi, Linuparus (Eolinuparus) vancouverensis
Type specimen: OU 12842, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Otaio River Gorge, which is in a Bortonian marine siltstone in the Little Pareora Silt Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Otaio River Gorge
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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