Malacostraca - Decapoda - Blepharipodidae

Full reference: T. Nyborg and F. J. Vega. 2008. Three new fossil species of Lopihomastix (Decapoda: Blepharipodidae) from the Cenozoic of Washington. Journal of Crustacean Biology 28(2):361-369

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

See also Nyborg and Vega 2008

Sister taxa: Lophomastix antiqua, Lophomastix boykoi, Lophomastix diomedeae, Lophomastix japonica, Lophomastix kellyi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pigeon Bluff, which is in a Burdigalian marine siltstone in the Astoria Formation of Washington

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pigeon Bluff

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