Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae

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 Mecochirus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Garassino 1996

Sister taxa: Mecochirus cenomanicus, Mecochirus chilensis, Mecochirus clypeatus, Mecochirus dubius, Mecochirus eckerti, Mecochirus foresti, Mecochirus grandis, Mecochirus houdardi, Mecochirus leionoton, Mecochirus longimanatus, Mecochirus marwicki, Mecochirus minimus, Mecochirus olifex, Mecochirus pearcei, Mecochirus peytoni, Mecochirus robbianoi, Mecochirus rostratus, Mecochirus socialis, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus

Type specimen: MSNM i13521, 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

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