Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae
Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa. 2000. Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan-Part 1. Nephropidae, Micheleidae and Galatheidae. Paleontological Research 4(2):139-145
Belongs to Eomunidopsis according to H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa 2000
Sister taxa: Eomunidopsis aldoirarensis, Eomunidopsis cobbani, Eomunidopsis kinokunica, Eomunidopsis limonitica, Eomunidopsis meerssensis, Eomunidopsis navarrensis, Eomunidopsis orobensis, Eomunidopsis portlandica, Eomunidopsis texcalaensis
Type specimen: MFM240.011, a carapace. Its type locality is YEZ-20, Wakkauenbetsugawa, Nakagawa-cho, which is in a Santonian marine siliciclastic in the Nigorikawa Formation of Japan.
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at YEZ-20, Wakkauenbetsugawa, Nakagawa-cho
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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