Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Full reference: T. Bell. 1863. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea, Part II. Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 14(63):1-40
Parent taxon: Marylyreidinae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann 1993, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Glaessner 1980, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bournelyreidus, Delytius, Heus, Marylyreidus
Subtaxa: Hemioon bidentata Hemioon callianassarum Hemioon circumviator Hemioon cunningtonii Hemioon novozelandicum Hemioon yanini
Type: Hemioon cunningtonii
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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