Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
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 Leptomithrax according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann and Keys 1992 and Glaessner 1960
Sister taxa: Leptomithrax atavus, Leptomithrax depressus, Leptomithrax edwardsii, Leptomithrax elegans, Leptomithrax elongatus, Leptomithrax gaimardii, Leptomithrax garthi, Leptomithrax globifer, Leptomithrax griffini, Leptomithrax irirangi, Leptomithrax martensis, Leptomithrax sternocostulatus, Leptomithrax tuberculatus
Type specimen: NZGS DC 175, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Wray's Quarry, which is in a Tongaporutuan marine horizon in the Urenui Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Wray's Quarry
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