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 konara, Munida nishioi, Munida ogaensis, Munida rogeri, Munida rubridigitalis, Munida rugosus, Munida spinicruris, Munida witteae

Type specimen: Its type locality is LACMIP 6938, Kydikabbit Point, which is in a Priabonian submarine fan siltstone/conglomerate in the Hoko River Formation of Washington

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LACMIP 6938, Kydikabbit Point

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