Malacostraca - Decapoda - Upogebiidae

Full reference: A. Garassino, P. Artal, and G. Pasini. 2009. Upogebia miocenica n. sp. (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Upogebiidae) from the Miocene of Catalonia (Spain). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 150(1):61-68

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

See also Garassino et al. 2009

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 lambrechtsi, Upogebia meyeri, Upogebia midwayensis, Upogebia mizunamiensis, Upogebia munsteri, Upogebia neglecta, Upogebia obscura, Upogebia perarolensis, Upogebia scabra, Upogebia stellata, Upogebia striata, Upogebia tanegashimensis, Upogebia tractabilis

Type specimen: MGSB 74532, a carapace. Its type locality is Les Clotes, Vilafranca del Penedès, which is in a Langhian coastal claystone in Spain.

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Les Clotes, Vilafranca del Penedès

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