Tymolus kamadai Imaizumi 1952 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cyclodorippidae

Full reference: R. Imaizumi. 1952. A Miocene crab, Tymolus kamadai n. sp. from the Numanouchi formation of the Joban Coal-field. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 7:201-204

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

See also Imaizumi 1952

Sister taxa: Tymolus alaskensis, Tymolus bottemilleri, Tymolus brucei, Tymolus hirtipes, Tymolus ingens, Tymolus italicus, Tymolus itoigawai, Tymolus japonicus, Tymolus similis, Tymolus uncifer

Type specimen: Its type locality is IGPS Fs-14, Kosugano-tsutsumi, which is in a Langhian marine horizon in the Numanouchi Formation of Japan

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at IGPS Fs-14, Kosugano-tsutsumi

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