Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Alternative combination: Bournelyreidus carlilensis
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and M. Maxey. 1980. Raninella carlilensis, a new raninid crab from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 54(4):858-861
Belongs to Raninella according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Karasawa et al. 2014 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Raninella armata, Raninella atava, Raninella baltica, Raninella circumviator, Raninella elongata, Raninella eocenica, Raninella libyca, Raninella manningi, Raninella mucronata, Raninella ornata, Raninella schloenbachi, Raninella starkvillensis, Raninella testacea, Raninella trechmanni, Raninella trigeri, Raninella yanini
Type specimen: 11298, a cephalothorax. Its type locality is 2 km west of Saline River Bridge, which is in a Turonian offshore shale in the Carlile Shale Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at 2 km west of Saline River Bridge
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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