Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Alternative combination: Raninella novozelandicum
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192
Belongs to Hemioon according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann 1993, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Karasawa et al. 2014 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Hemioon bidentata, Hemioon callianassarum, Hemioon circumviator, Hemioon cunningtonii, Hemioon vectensis, Hemioon yanini
Type specimen: Its type locality is Swale Stream, which is in an Albian marine siltstone in the Swale Siltstone Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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