Thylacocephala - Concavicarida - Microcarididae
Full reference: M. Ehiro and H. Kano. 2024. A new species of Parisicaris (Microcarididae, Thylacocephala) from the upper Olenekian (Lower Triassic) Osawa Formation in the South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 23:23-34
Belongs to Parisicaris according to M. Ehiro and H. Kano 2024
Sister taxa: Parisicaris rectilineatus, Parisicaris triassica
Type specimen: IGPS 112810, a carapace. Its type locality is Cape Tatezaki, Utatsu, Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Osawa Formation of Japan.
Ecology: nektobenthic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Cape Tatezaki, Utatsu, Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture
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