Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mathildellidae
Full reference: M. Yokoyama. 1911. Some Tertiary fossils from the Miike coal-field. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo 27:1-16
Belongs to Branchioplax according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Branchioplax albertii, Branchioplax ballingi, Branchioplax bidentata, Branchioplax carmanahensis, Branchioplax concinna, Branchioplax cordata, Branchioplax parva, Branchioplax rossii, Branchioplax sulcata, Branchioplax washingtoniana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Manda, Miike Coal-field (484 feet depth), which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Japan
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Kattachi, Omuta City
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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