Paki rurkonsimpu Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Micheleidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa. 2000. Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan-Part 1. Nephropidae, Micheleidae and Galatheidae. Paleontological Research 4(2):139-145

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

See also Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCM.A539, a carapace. Its type locality is YEZ-18, Kotanbetsu, Tomamae-cho, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in Japan.

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at YEZ-18, Kotanbetsu, Tomamae-cho

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