Pororaria eocenica Glaessner 1980 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192

Belongs to Pororaria according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021

See also Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann and Maxwell 1990, Glaessner 1980 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Porari, GS 10490, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in New Zealand

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of New Zealand (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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