Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46
Belongs to Mecochirus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992
Sister taxa: Mecochirus cenomanicus, Mecochirus chilensis, Mecochirus clypeatus, Mecochirus dubius, Mecochirus eckerti, Mecochirus foresti, Mecochirus germari, Mecochirus grandis, Mecochirus houdardi, Mecochirus leionoton, Mecochirus longimanatus, Mecochirus marwicki, Mecochirus minimus, Mecochirus olifex, Mecochirus pearcei, Mecochirus peytoni, Mecochirus robbianoi, Mecochirus socialis, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus
Type specimen: MGUH 21.580, a carapace. Its type locality is Oyster-ammonite Conglomerate loc. II, Agatdalen, Nugssuaq, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shale in Greenland.
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Greenland (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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