Arcantitanais turpis Sánchez-García et al. 2016 (arthropod)

Malacostraca - Tanaidacea

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 Arcantitanais according to A. Sánchez-García et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IGR.ARC-40, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Charentese amber, Archingeay-Les-Nouillers, subunit A1sl-A, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in France.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Charentese amber, Archingeay-Les-Nouillers, subunit A1sl-A

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