Malacostraca - Decapoda - Varunidae

Full reference: S. Casadio, A. De Angeli, R. M. Feldmann, A. Garassino, J. L. Hetler, A. Parras, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2004. New decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Galatheoidea, Brachyura) from the Middle Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Annals of Carnegie Museum 73(2):25-47

Belongs to Asthenognathus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Casadio et al. 2004 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Asthenognathus atlanticus, Asthenognathus cornishorum, Asthenognathus globosa, Asthenognathus hexagonum, Asthenognathus inaequipes, Asthenognathus laverdensis, Asthenognathus rakosensis, Asthenognathus urretae

Type specimen: GHUNLPam 25.043. Its type locality is Left bank of Rio Foyel, which is in a Miocene offshore shale in the Rio Foyel Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Left bank of Rio Foyel

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