Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79
Belongs to Tumidocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Feldmann and Keys 1992, Glaessner 1960 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Tumidocarcinus dentatus, Tumidocarcinus foersteri, Tumidocarcinus tumidus, Tumidocarcinus victoriensis
Type specimen: NZGS DC 181, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Tangarakau River Gorge, which is in a Miocene/Miocene marine horizon in New Zealand.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tangarakau River Gorge
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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