Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79
Belongs to Mecochirus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann and Keys 1992 and Glaessner 1960
Sister taxa: Mecochirus cenomanicus, Mecochirus chilensis, Mecochirus dubius, Mecochirus eckerti, Mecochirus foresti, Mecochirus germari, Mecochirus grandis, Mecochirus leionoton, Mecochirus longimanatus, Mecochirus minimus, Mecochirus pearcei, Mecochirus peytoni, Mecochirus robbianoi, Mecochirus rostratus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus
Type specimen: NZGS DC 266, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Klondyke Road, Waikato Heads, which is in a Heterian marine horizon in New Zealand.
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Heterian of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Jurassic of New Zealand (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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