Malacostraca - Decapoda - Ocypodidae

Full reference: A. Garassino, A. De Angeli, G. Pasini and F. Tangocci. 2010. Ocypode italica n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from the Piacentian (middle Pliocene) of Tuscany (Central Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 151(2):135-144

Belongs to Ocypode according to A. Garassino et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Ocypode (Elamene), Ocypode africana, Ocypode cursor, Ocypode quadrata, Ocypode vericoncava

Type specimen: IGF 14623E, a carapace. Its type locality is Poggibonsi, which is in a Piacenzian shoreface sandstone in Italy.

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Poggibonsi

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