Luisogalathea tomitai Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae

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 Luisogalathea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MFM247.010, a carapace. Its type locality is YEZ-19, Nakafutamatagawa, Haboro-cho, which is in a Santonian marine siliciclastic in Japan.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at YEZ-19, Nakafutamatagawa, Haboro-cho

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