Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160
Belongs to Quasilaeviranina according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Quasilaeviranina arafita, Quasilaeviranina arzignagnensis, Quasilaeviranina arzignanensis, Quasilaeviranina eocenica, Quasilaeviranina keyesi, Quasilaeviranina miniscula, Quasilaeviranina minuscula, Quasilaeviranina ombonii, Quasilaeviranina pororariensis, Quasilaeviranina simplicissima
Type specimen: Its type locality is Prairie Creek, Sucarnochee Clays, which is in a Paleocene coastal claystone in the Sucarnochee Clay Formation of Alabama
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Mexico (1 collection), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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