Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Kato. 1996. Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Neogene of Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109(1):44-52
Belongs to Daldorfia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2020
See also Karasawa and Kato 1996 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Daldorfia eocaena, Daldorfia fabianii, Daldorfia himaleoraphis, Daldorfia horridus, Daldorfia salina
Type specimen: KMNH IvP 300,022, a carapace. Its type locality is MYZ-4, Akatani Cliff, which is in a Messinian marine siltstone in the Higashimorogata Formation of Japan.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at MYZ-4, Akatani Cliff
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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