Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and A. Encinas. 2005. New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(3):427-449
Belongs to Calappilia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann et al. 2005, Luque et al. 2017 and Rumsey et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Calappilia boehmi, Calappilia bonairensis, Calappilia borneoensis, Calappilia brooksi, Calappilia calculosa, Calappilia circularis, Calappilia dacica, Calappilia diglypta, Calappilia gableorum, Calappilia gemmata, Calappilia gorodiskii, Calappilia granulosa, Calappilia hondoensis, Calappilia incisa, Calappilia lyrata, Calappilia matzkei, Calappilia maxwelli, Calappilia minuta, Calappilia perlata, Calappilia perreaulti, Calappilia scopuli, Calappilia sexdentata, Calappilia sitzi, Calappilia subovata, Calappilia tridentata, Calappilia verrucosa, Calappilia vicetina
Type specimen: SGO.PI.6310. Its type locality is WP68 (MZ-PUP), between Matanzas and Pupuya, which is in a Miocene submarine fan sandstone/siltstone in the Navidad Formation of Chile.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at WP68 (MZ-PUP), between Matanzas and Pupuya
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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