Medaeops Guinot 1967 (stone crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae

Parent taxon: Euxanthinae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021

See also Karasawa 1993, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Euxanthus, Hypocolpus, Lipaesthesius, Madaeus, Medaeus, Monodaeus

Subtaxa: Medaeops megamiensis

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Megami Cliff (Miocene to Miocene of Japan)

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