Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Full reference: A. Garassino, G. Pasini, T. Nyborg and J. W. Haggart. 2021. Report of new lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Haida Gwaii Archipelago, Canada. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 301(2):201-216
Belongs to Mecochirus according to A. Garassino et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Mecochirus cenomanicus, Mecochirus chilensis, Mecochirus dubius, Mecochirus eckerti, Mecochirus foresti, Mecochirus germari, Mecochirus grandis, Mecochirus leionoton, Mecochirus longimanatus, Mecochirus marwicki, Mecochirus minimus, Mecochirus pearcei, Mecochirus peytoni, Mecochirus robbianoi, Mecochirus rostratus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus, Mecochirus tuberculatus
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at GSC Loc. V-016963, Robber Island (Cretaceous of British Columbia)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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