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 Ranina according to M. J. Rathbun 1935
See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Ranina aldrovandi, Ranina bavarica, Ranina berglundi, Ranina bouilleana, Ranina brevispina, Ranina burleighensis, Ranina cretacea, Ranina cuspidata, Ranina elegans, Ranina granulosa, Ranina griesbachi, Ranina haszlinskyi, Ranina hirsuta, Ranina laevifrons, Ranina laevis, Ranina lamiensis, Ranina marestiana, Ranina molengraaffi, Ranina oblonga, Ranina ornata, Ranina palmea, Ranina propinqua, Ranina quinquespinosa, Ranina ranina, Ranina reussi, Ranina speciosa, Ranina tejoniana, Ranina trechmanni
Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Stephens Bluff, Tombigbee River, which is in an Oligocene marine limestone in the Glendon Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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