Typilobus sadeki Withers 1925 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1925. Typilobus Sadeki. A New Crab from the Miocene of Sinai. Preliminary geological report on Gebel Khoshera area (Western Sinai)

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

Sister taxa: Typilobus alponensis, Typilobus belli, Typilobus birshteinyi, Typilobus corrodatus, Typilobus granulosus, Typilobus johnfeni, Typilobus kishimotoi, Typilobus marginatus, Typilobus modregoi, Typilobus moralejai, Typilobus obscurus, Typilobus prevostianus, Typilobus semseyanus, Typilobus trispinosus, Typilobus unispinatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sinai Decapods, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in Egypt

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sinai Decapods

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