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 barti, Upogebia boehmi, Upogebia bowerbankii, Upogebia clypeata, Upogebia darwinii, Upogebia digitata, Upogebia dromana, Upogebia eocenica, Upogebia hibiki, Upogebia imperfecta, Upogebia kowai, 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: Its type locality is Ampe sand and clay pit, which is in a Paleogene marginal marine siliciclastic in Belgium

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Ampe sand and clay pit

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