Homolopsis japonicus Yokoyama 1911 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolidae

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 Homolopsis according to M. Yokoyama 1911

See also Karasawa 1992, Karasawa 1993 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Homolopsis chilensis, Homolopsis edwardsii, Homolopsis gibbosa, Homolopsis glabra, Homolopsis hachiyai, Homolopsis spinulosa, Homolopsis tuberculata, Homolopsis williamsi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Manda, Miike Coal-field (489 feet depth), which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Japan

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Manda, Miike Coal-field (489 feet depth)

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