Xanthilites pentagonalis Yokoyama 1911 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae

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 Xanthilites according to M. Yokoyama 1911

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

Sister taxa: Xanthilites alabamensis, Xanthilites bowerbanki, Xanthilites gerthi, Xanthilites interpunctatus, Xanthilites rathbunae, Xanthilites traubi, Xanthilites verrucoides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Manda, Miike Coal-field (484 feet depth), which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Japan

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Manda, Miike Coal-field (484 feet depth)

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