Eobodotria muisca Luque and Gerken 2019 (hooded shrimp)

Malacostraca - Cumacea - Bodotriidae

Full reference: J. Luque and S. Gerken. 2019. Exceptional preservation of comma shrimp from a mid-Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Colombia, and the origins of crown Cumacea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1916):20191863

Belongs to Eobodotria according to J. Luque and S. Gerken 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IGM p880694a. Its type locality is Near Pesca, which is in a Cenomanian coastal claystone in the Churuvita Formation of Colombia.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Near Pesca

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