Varuna angustifrons Karasawa 1993 (crab)
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Malacostraca - Decapoda - Varunidae
Full reference: H. Karasawa. 1993. Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (20)1-92
Belongs to Varuna according to H. Karasawa 1993
See also Karasawa and Fudouji 2000 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MFM218501, a carapace. Its type locality is Hatada Cliff, which is in a Rupelian marine mudstone in the Kishima Formation of Japan.
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Japan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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