Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Alternative combination: Lyreidus (Lyreidus) elegans
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79
Belongs to Lyreidus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann 1992, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Glaessner 1960 and Karasawa et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Lyreidus (Lyreidus), Lyreidus antarcticus, Lyreidus bennetti, Lyreidus brevifrons, Lyreidus fastigatus, Lyreidus hookeri, Lyreidus hungaricus, Lyreidus lebuensis, Lyreidus rosenkrantzi, Lyreidus stenops, Lyreidus teodorii, Lyreidus teshimai, Lyreidus tridentatus, Lyreidus waitakiensis, Lysirude hookeri, Lysirude griffini, Lysirude paronae, Lysirude nitidus, Lysirude channeri
Type specimen: NZGS DC 123, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Tutaki S.D., which is in an Altonian marine horizon in New Zealand.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tutaki S.D.
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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