Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Full reference: H. Kato and H. Karasawa. 1994. Minohellenus macrocheilus sp. nov. (Decapoda: Crustacea) from the Oligocene Ashiya Group, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 13:51-58
Belongs to Minohellenus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Kato and Karasawa 1994 and Kato and Karasawa 1996
Sister taxa: Minohellenus araucanus, Minohellenus chichibuensis, Minohellenus inexpressus, Minohellenus minoensis, Minohellenus quinquedentatus, Minohellenus sexdentatus, Minohellenus umemotoi
Type specimen: KMNH IvP 300,020. Its type locality is Sezaki Beach, Ainoshima Island, which is in a Chattian marine siltstone in the Yamaga Formation of Japan.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Japan (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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