Malacostraca - Decapoda - Glypheidae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and C. E. Schweitzer. 2013. A new Early Jurassic lobster (Decapoda: Glypheoidea: Glypheidae) from Lyme Regis, England. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 39:1-5
Belongs to Glyphea according to R. M. Feldmann and C. E. Schweitzer 2013
Sister taxa: Glyphea alexandri, Glyphea arborinsularis, Glyphea bathonica, Glyphea bicarinata, Glyphea bohemica, Glyphea bronnii, Glyphea calloviensis, Glyphea carinata, Glyphea carolinensis, Glyphea carteri, Glyphea christeyi, Glyphea couloni, Glyphea crassa, Glyphea cretacea, Glyphea damesi, Glyphea dressieri, Glyphea eureka, Glyphea ferruginea, Glyphea foresti, Glyphea garasbaaensis, Glyphea georgianus, Glyphea gussmanni, Glyphea hennigi, Glyphea jeletzkyi, Glyphea jurensis, Glyphea liasina, Glyphea lyrica, Glyphea magnevillii, Glyphea mazetieri, Glyphea meyeri, Glyphea meyeri, Glyphea micheleae, Glyphea muensteri, Glyphea neocomiensis, Glyphea oculata, Glyphea pisuergae, Glyphea prestwichi, Glyphea pseudoscylarus, Glyphea pseudoscyllarus, Glyphea regleyana, Glyphea reticulata, Glyphea riazi, Glyphea rigoi, Glyphea rosenkrantzi, Glyphea serratosai, Glyphea solitaria, Glyphea spinulosa, Glyphea stilwelli, Glyphea stokesi, Glyphea tantalus, Glyphea tenuis, Glyphea tonelloi, Glyphea tricarinata, Glyphea vectensis, Glyphea viohli, Glyphea wiffenae, Glyphea willetti, Glyphea yoshiakii
Type specimen: NHM IC 624, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Base of Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis, which is in a Bucklandi marine lime mudstone in the Blue Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Base of Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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