Malacostraca - Decapoda - Munidopsidae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, D. M. Tshudy, and M. R. A. Thomson. 1993. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir 28:1-41
Belongs to Munidopsis according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann et al. 1993 and Karasawa 2020
Sister taxa: Munidopsis bispinoculata, Munidopsis canadensis, Munidopsis edwardsii, Munidopsis kaedetatsuyai, Munidopsis kensleyi, Munidopsis lieskovensis, Munidopsis marginata, Munidopsis palmuelleri, Munidopsis proales, Munidopsis rostrata, Munidopsis salinaria, Munidopsis scabrosa, Munidopsis serricornis, Munidopsis subsquamosa, Munidopsis tasmaniae, Munidopsis treis, Munidopsis verrilli, Munidopsis victoriae
Type specimen: BAS IN.2430. Its type locality is Locality 10, Western San José Pass, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in the Santa Marta Formation of Antarctica.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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