Mursia harnicari Hyžný and Schlögl 2011 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: M. Hyžný and J. Schlögl. 2011. An Early Miocene deep-water decapod crustacean faunule from the Vienna Basin (western Carpathians, Slovakia). Palaeontology 54(2):323-349

Belongs to Mursia according to M. Hyžný and J. Schlögl 2011

Sister taxa: Mursia armata, Mursia aspina, Mursia australiensis, Mursia bekenuensis, Mursia circularis, Mursia creutzbergi, Mursia cristiata, Mursia curtispina, Mursia granulosa, Mursia lienharti, Mursia macdonaldi, Mursia marcusana, Mursia minuta, Mursia obscura, Mursia simplex, Mursia takahashii, Mursia yaquinensis

Type specimen: SNM-Z-35.100, a carapace. Its type locality is Cerová-Lieskové, which is in a Burdigalian offshore mudstone in the Lakšárska Nová Ves Formation of Slovakia.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cerová-Lieskové

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