Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
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 Lyreidus according to J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen 1992
See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Tucker 1998
Sister taxa: Lyreidus (Lyreidus), Lyreidus antarcticus, Lyreidus bennetti, Lyreidus brevifrons, Lyreidus elegans, Lyreidus fastigatus, Lyreidus hookeri, Lyreidus hungaricus, Lyreidus lebuensis, Lyreidus stenops, Lyreidus teodorii, Lyreidus teshimai, Lyreidus tridentatus, Lyreidus waitakiensis, Lysirude griffini, Lysirude hookeri, Lysirude channeri, Lysirude paronae, Lysirude nitidus
Type specimen: MGUH 21.597, a carapace. Its type locality is Oyster-ammonite Conglomerate loc. III, Agatdalen, Nugssuaq, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore 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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