Malacostraca - Decapoda - Crangonidae
Alternative combination: Longitergite miocenicus
Synonym: Bannikovia maikopensis Garassino and Teruzzi 1996
Full reference: A. Garassino and G. Teruzzi. 1996. The genera Longitergite nov. and Bannikovia nov. in the Lower Miocene of N Caucasus (Russia) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 136(1):3-14
Belongs to Crangon according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Garassino and Teruzzi 1996 and Garassino and Teruzzi 2001
Sister taxon: Crangon magnevillei
Type specimens:
- Crangon miocenicus: PIN 4505-5a, a carapace. Its type locality is 1.5 km west of Shirvanskaya, near the Pshekha river (PIN collection), which is in a Miocene marine claystone in the Maikop Formation of the Russian Federation.
- Bannikovia maikopensis: PIN 4504-1. Its type locality is 1.5 km west of Shirvanskaya, near the Pshekha river (PIN collection), which is in a Miocene marine claystone in the Maikop Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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