Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, P. A. Maxwell and B. M. Kelley. 2008. Fossil isopod and decapod crustaceans from the Kowai Formation (Pliocene) near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51:43-58

Belongs to Kowaicarcinus according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CM1998.171.16, a cephalothorax

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore