Malacostraca - Decapoda - Munididae

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. First notice of the Chirostylidae (Decapoda) in the fossil record and new Tertiary Galatheidae (Decapoda) from the Americas. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (27)147-165

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

See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000

Sister taxa: Munida asprosoma, Munida branti, Munida casadioi, Munida chydaea, Munida deangelii, Munida endeavourae, Munida gregaria, Munida haswelli, Munida isos, Munida kapala, Munida nishioi, Munida ogaensis, Munida quadroblonga, Munida rogeri, Munida rubridigitalis, Munida rugosus, Munida spinicruris, Munida witteae

Type specimen: Its type locality is North Yakataga Ridge, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Poul Creek Formation of Alaska

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at North Yakataga Ridge

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