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Lobonotus orientalis

Taxonomy

Lobonotus orientalis was named by Collins and Morris (1978). Its type specimen is BMNH In.48245, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South of Nila Kund, which is in a Ypresian coastal shale/limestone in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan. It is the type species of Pakicarcinus.

It was recombined as Pakicarcinus orientalis by Schweitzer et al. (2004), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Charbonnier et al. (2013), Schweitzer et al. (2021).

Year	Name and author
1978	Lobonotus orientalis Collins and Morris p. 970 figs. Pl 116, figs 10,11; pl 117, fig 1
2002	Lobonotus orientalis Schweitzer et al. p. 19
2004	Pakicarcinus orientalis Schweitzer et al. p. 110
2010	Pakicarcinus orientalis Schweitzer et al. p. 123
2013	Pakicarcinus orientalis Charbonnier et al. p. 107 fig. 6J
2021	Pakicarcinus orientalis Schweitzer et al. p. 11 fig. 4.7