Malacostraca - Decapoda - Upogebiidae

Full reference: R. H. B. Fraaije, B. W. M. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt and Y. Coole. 2006. Two new Paleogene species of mud shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Upogebiidae) from Europe and North America. Bulletin of Mizunami Fossil Museum 33:77-85

Belongs to Upogebia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Fraaije et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Upogebia (Upogebia), Upogebia affinis, Upogebia australiensis, Upogebia boehmi, Upogebia bowerbankii, Upogebia clypeata, Upogebia darwinii, Upogebia digitata, Upogebia dromana, Upogebia eocenica, Upogebia hibiki, Upogebia imperfecta, Upogebia kowai, Upogebia lambrechtsi, Upogebia meyeri, Upogebia midwayensis, Upogebia miocenica, Upogebia mizunamiensis, Upogebia munsteri, Upogebia neglecta, Upogebia obscura, Upogebia perarolensis, Upogebia scabra, Upogebia stellata, Upogebia striata, Upogebia tanegashimensis, Upogebia tractabilis

Type specimen: MAB k.2436. Its type locality is RB18, Twin Rivers quarry, which is in a Chattian marine siliciclastic in the Pysht Formation of Washington.

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at RB18, Twin Rivers quarry

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