Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and I. Lazar. 2009. Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35:1-14

Belongs to Lophoranina according to H. Karasawa et al. 2014

See also Schweitzer et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Lophoranina aculeata, Lophoranina aldrovandii, Lophoranina avesana, Lophoranina bakerti, Lophoranina barroisi, Lophoranina bishopi, Lophoranina bittneri, Lophoranina cinquecrista, Lophoranina cristaspina, Lophoranina georgiana, Lophoranina georgina, Lophoranina kemmelingi, Lophoranina laevifrons, Lophoranina levantina, Lophoranina lincki, Lophoranina marestiana, Lophoranina maxima, Lophoranina persica, Lophoranina porifera, Lophoranina precocia, Lophoranina quinquespinosa, Lophoranina raynorae, Lophoranina reussi, Lophoranina rossi, Lophoranina soembaensis, Lophoranina straeleni, Lophoranina tchihatcheffi, Lophoranina toyosimai

Type specimen: LPBIIIart007, a carapace. Its type locality is Albeşti, which is in a Ypresian/Lutetian marine limestone in Romania.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Albeşti

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