Eurotanais pyrenaensis Sánchez-García et al. 2016 (arthropod)

Malacostraca - Tanaidacea - Alavatanaidae

Full reference: A. Sánchez-García, E. Peñalver, and V. Perrichot. 2016. Taxonomic names, in Palaeobiology of tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Cretaceous ambers: extending the scarce fossil record of a diverse peracarid group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178:492-522

Belongs to Eurotanais according to A. Sánchez-García et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Eurotanais seilacheri, Eurotanais terminator

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A51529a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Fourtou, Pyrenean amber, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in France.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Fourtou, Pyrenean amber

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