Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Alternative combination: Hemioon eysunesensis
Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46
Belongs to Bournelyreidus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Bournelyreidus ericksoni, Bournelyreidus laevis, Bournelyreidus oaheensis, Bournelyreidus paredonensis, Bournelyreidus teodorii
Type specimen: MGUH 21.592, a carapace. Its type locality is Ikorfat, 550 m above sea level, which is in a Campanian marine shale in Greenland.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Greenland (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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