Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Full reference: H. Karasawa. 1993. Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (20)1-92
Belongs to Mursia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Karasawa 1993
Sister taxa: Mursia armata, Mursia aspina, Mursia australiensis, Mursia bekenuensis, Mursia circularis, Mursia creutzbergi, Mursia cristiata, Mursia curtispina, Mursia granulosa, Mursia harnicari, Mursia lienharti, Mursia macdonaldi, Mursia marcusana, Mursia obscura, Mursia simplex, Mursia takahashii, Mursia yaquinensis
Type specimen: MFM142003, a carapace. Its type locality is Kamiyamaji, which is in a Pliocene marine siltstone in the Kawabara Formation of Japan.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kamiyamaji
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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