Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Full reference: H. Woodward. 1900. Further notes on podophthalmous crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous Formation of British Columbia, etc. The Geological Magazine, Decade IV 7:433-435
Belongs to Meyeria according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann and McPherson 1980, Feldmann et al. 1995, Rathbun 1926 and Woodward 1900
Sister taxa: Meyeria bolivari, Meyeria crofti, Meyeria gracilis, Meyeria hurtrelleorum, Meyeria ornata, Meyeria ornatus, Meyeria pueblaensis, Meyeria vectensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hornby Island (Harvey collection), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Spray Formation of Canada
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hornby Island (Harvey collection)
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