†Paromola vetula Crawford 2008 (crab)
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Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolidae
Full reference: R. S. Crawford. 2008. A new species of fossil homolid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Río Foyel Formation (Paleogene), Río Negro province, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 82:835-841
Belongs to Paromola according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2012
See also Crawford 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Paromola japonica, Paromola macrochira, Paromola roseburgensis
Type specimen: MPB 4011, a carapace. Its type locality is South of San Carlos de Bariloche, which is in a Miocene marine shale in the Río Foyel Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at South of San Carlos de Bariloche
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