Malacostraca - Decapoda - Coleiidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa, F. Takahashi, E. Doi and H. Ishida. 2003. First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the upper Triassic of Japan. Paleontological Research 7:357-362

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

See also Karasawa et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Coleia antiqua, Coleia barrovensis, Coleia boboi, Coleia bredonensis, Coleia brodiei, Coleia crassichelis, Coleia incerta, Coleia longipes, Coleia martinlutheri, Coleia mediterranea, Coleia moorei, Coleia morierei, Coleia pinnai, Coleia popeyei, Coleia sibirica, Coleia sinuata, Coleia tenuichelis, Coleia viallii, Coleia wilmcotensis

Type specimen: MMHF-00039, a carapace. Its type locality is Tsubuta MN-1, Sanyo-cho, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which is in a Julian marine shale in the Nakatsuka Formation of Japan.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tsubuta MN-1, Sanyo-cho, Yamaguchi Prefecture

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