Paralithodes bishuensis

Paralithodes bishuensis is an extinct species of king crab that lived in Japan during the Early Miocene.^[1][2]

Paralithodes bishuensis Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Lithodidae
Genus:	Paralithodes
Species:	†P. bishuensis
Binomial name
†Paralithodes bishuensis Karasawa & Ando in Karasawa, Mizuno, Hachiya & Ando, 2017[1]

Taxonomy

Paralithodes bishuensis was described in 2017 by paleontologists Hiroaki Karasawa and Yusuke Ando from a juvenile fossil in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.^[3] It represented the first Paralithodes fossil.^[4]