A new member of the Family Prosopidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan
Vol. 23 No. 3 (2006), SPECIAL SECTION, Systematics and paleobiology of fossil Crustacea
Vol. 23 No. 3 (2006)

A new member of the Family Prosopidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan

SPECIAL SECTION, Systematics and paleobiology of fossil Crustacea
Published 2018-04-20
Hiroaki Karasawa
Mizunami Fossil Museum, Yamanouchi, Akeyo, Mizunami, Gifu 509-6132, Japan.
Hisayoshi Kato
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Aoba, Chiba 260-8682, Japan.
Kazunobu Terabe
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
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Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Prosopidae, Cretaceous, Japan.

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Karasawa, H., Kato, H., & Terabe, K. (2018). A new member of the Family Prosopidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Geológicas, 23(3), 344–349. Retrieved from https://rmcg.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/830
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Abstract

A new genus and species (Decapoda: Brachyura: Prosopidae) is described from the lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation of Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It represents the second and oldest record of the Family Prosopidae from the North Pacific realm. A checklist of all known species of the Mesozoic Decapoda from Japan is included.

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