Ankitokazocaris chaohuensis Ji et al. 2017 (crustacean)

Thylacocephala

Synonym: Ankitokazocaris tatensis Ehiro et al. 2019

Full reference: C. Ji, A. Tintori, D. Y. Jinang and R. Motani. 2017. New species of Thylacocephala (Arthropoda) from the Spathian (Lower Triassic) of Chaohu, Anhui Province of China. PalZ 91:171-184

Belongs to Ankitokazocaris according to T. Laville et al. 2021

See also Ji et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Ankitokazocaris acutirostris, Ankitokazocaris bandoi, Ankitokazocaris parva, Ankitokazocaris triassica, Ankitokazocaris utatsuensis

Type specimens:

  • Ankitokazocaris chaohuensis: NIGP 163032, a carapace. Its type locality is Majiashan quarry, bed 677, which is in a Spathian basinal (siliciclastic) mudstone in the Nanlinghu Formation of China.
  • Ankitokazocaris tatensis:

Ecology: nektobenthic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Majiashan quarry, bed 677

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