Pachycheles cristatus Beschin et al. 2018 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidae

Full reference: C. Beschin, A. Busulini, E. Fomaciari, C. A. Papazzoni, and G. Tessier. 2018. La fauna di crostacei associati a coralli dell'Eocene Superiore di Campolongo di Val Liona (Monti Berici, Vicenz, Italia nordorientale). Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia 69:129-215

Belongs to Pachycheles according to C. Beschin et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Pachycheles dorsosulcatus, Pachycheles granti, Pachycheles latus, Pachycheles multituberculatus, Pachycheles riisei, Pachycheles semiornatus, Pachycheles stevensii, Pisosoma riisei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Campolongo di Val Liona, which is in a Priabonian marine horizon in Italy

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Campolongo di Val Liona

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