Ankitokazocaris bandoi Ehiro and Kato 2015 (crustacean)

Thylacocephala

Full reference: M. Ehiro and H. Kato. 2015. Taxonomic names, in Thylacocephala (Arthropoda) from the Lower Triassic of the South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 19:269-282

Belongs to Ankitokazocaris according to M. Ehiro and H. Kato 2015

Sister taxa: Ankitokazocaris acutirostris, Ankitokazocaris chaohuensis, Ankitokazocaris lariensis, Ankitokazocaris parva, Ankitokazocaris triassica, Ankitokazocaris utatsuensis

Type specimen: IGPS 111442, a carapace. Its type locality is Cape Tatezaki, Utatsu, Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Osawa Formation of Japan.

Ecology: nektobenthic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Cape Tatezaki, Utatsu, Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture

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