Malacostraca - Decapoda - Glypheidae
Full reference: A. Garassino. 1996. The family Erymidae Van Straelen, 1924 and the superfamily Glypheoidea Zittel, 1885 in the Sinemurian of Osteno in Lombardy (Crustacea, Decapoda). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 135(2):333-373
Belongs to Glyphea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Garassino 1996
Sister taxa: Glyphea alexandri, Glyphea arborinsularis, Glyphea bathonica, Glyphea bicarinata, Glyphea bohemica, Glyphea bronnii, Glyphea calloviensis, Glyphea carinata, Glyphea carolinensis, Glyphea carteri, Glyphea christeyi, Glyphea couloni, Glyphea crassa, Glyphea cretacea, Glyphea damesi, Glyphea dressieri, Glyphea eureka, Glyphea ferruginea, Glyphea foresti, Glyphea garasbaaensis, Glyphea georgianus, Glyphea gussmanni, Glyphea hennigi, Glyphea jeletzkyi, Glyphea jurensis, Glyphea liasina, Glyphea lyrica, Glyphea macromuscula, Glyphea magnevillii, Glyphea mazetieri, Glyphea meyeri, Glyphea meyeri, Glyphea micheleae, Glyphea muensteri, Glyphea neocomiensis, Glyphea oculata, Glyphea pisuergae, Glyphea prestwichi, Glyphea pseudoscylarus, Glyphea pseudoscyllarus, Glyphea regleyana, Glyphea reticulata, Glyphea riazi, Glyphea rigoi, Glyphea rosenkrantzi, Glyphea serratosai, Glyphea solitaria, Glyphea spinulosa, Glyphea stilwelli, Glyphea stokesi, Glyphea tantalus, Glyphea tenuis, Glyphea tonelloi, Glyphea vectensis, Glyphea viohli, Glyphea wiffenae, Glyphea willetti, Glyphea yoshiakii
Type specimen: MSNM i7609, a carapace. Its type locality is Osteno, which is in a Bucklandi lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation of Italy.
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Osteno
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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