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Ranininae
Taxonomy
Ranininae was named by De Haan (1839). It is extant. Its type is Rodanina.
It was assigned to Palaeocorystidae by Ng et al. (2009); and to Raninidae by Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen (1992), Feldmann (1992), Vega et al. (2001), Schweitzer and Feldmann (2002), Collins et al. (2003), Schweitzer et al. (2006), Schweitzer et al. (2007), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Beschin et al. (2011), van Bakel et al. (2012), Karasawa et al. (2014), Luque et al. (2017), Pasini and Garassino (2017), Schweitzer et al. (2018), Feldmann et al. (2019), Ferratges et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Palaeocorystidae by Ng et al. (2009); and to Raninidae by Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen (1992), Feldmann (1992), Vega et al. (2001), Schweitzer and Feldmann (2002), Collins et al. (2003), Schweitzer et al. (2006), Schweitzer et al. (2007), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Beschin et al. (2011), van Bakel et al. (2012), Karasawa et al. (2014), Luque et al. (2017), Pasini and Garassino (2017), Schweitzer et al. (2018), Feldmann et al. (2019), Ferratges et al. (2025).
Subtaxa
Alcespina, Alloranina, Lophoranina (syn. Palaeonotopus), Lophoraninella, Ranina, Raninella, Remyranina, Rodanina (type genus), Vegaranina
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1839 | Ranininae De Haan |
| 1992 | Ranininae Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen p. 19 |
| 1992 | Ranininae Feldmann p. 943 |
| 2001 | Ranininae Vega et al. p. 931 |
| 2002 | Ranininae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961 |
| 2003 | Ranininae Collins et al. p. 198 |
| 2006 | Ranininae Schweitzer et al. p. 24 figs. Table 1 |
| 2007 | Ranininae Schweitzer et al. p. 3 |
| 2009 | Ranininae Ng et al. |
| 2010 | Ranininae Schweitzer et al. p. 73 |
| 2011 | Ranininae Beschin et al. p. 37 |
| 2012 | Ranininae van Bakel et al. p. 89 |
| 2014 | Ranininae Karasawa et al. p. 259 |
| 2017 | Ranininae Luque et al. p. 33 |
| 2017 | Ranininae Pasini and Garassino p. 88 |
| 2018 | Ranininae Schweitzer et al. p. 30 |
| 2019 | Ranininae Feldmann et al. |
| 2025 | Ranininae Ferratges et al. p. 551 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. Ranininae De Haan 1839
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G. †Alcespina Pasini and Garassino 2017
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†Alcespina americana Withers 1924
†Alcespina ovadaensis Pasini and Garassino 2017
G. †Alloranina Ferratges et al. 2025
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†Alloranina arjae Ferratges et al. 2025
†Alloranina pellattieroi De Angeli and Beschin 2011
G. †Lophoranina Fabiani 1910
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†Lophoranina aculeata Milne-Edwards 1881
†Lophoranina albeshtensis Schweitzer et al. 2009
†Lophoranina aldrovandii Ranzani 1820
†Lophoranina avesana Bittner 1884
†Lophoranina bakerti Milne-Edwards 1872
†Lophoranina barroisi Brocchi 1877
†Lophoranina bishopi Feldmann et al. 1996
†Lophoranina bittneri Lorenthey 1902
†Lophoranina cinquecrista Feldmann et al. 2011
†Lophoranina cristaspina Vega et al. 2001
†Lophoranina georgiana Rathbun 1935
†Lophoranina georgina Rathbun 1935
†Lophoranina kemmelingi Van Straelen 1924
†Lophoranina laevifrons Bittner 1875
†Lophoranina levantina Lewy 1977
†Lophoranina lincki Feldmann et al. 2019
†Lophoranina marestiana König 1825
†Lophoranina maxima Beschin and Busulini 2004
†Lophoranina persica Withers 1932
†Lophoranina porifera Woodward 1866
†Lophoranina precocia Feldmann 1996
†Lophoranina quinquespinosa Rathbun 1945
†Lophoranina raynorae Blow and Manning 1996
†Lophoranina reussi Woodward 1866
†Lophoranina rossi Blow and Manning 1996
†Lophoranina soembaensis Van Straelen 1938
†Lophoranina straeleni Via 1959
†Lophoranina tchihatcheffi Milne-Edwards 1866
†Lophoranina toyosimai Yabe and Sugiyama 1935
Invalid names: Palaeonotopus Brocchi 1877 [synonym]
G. †Ranina Feldmann et al. 1996
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†Ranina aldrovandi Desmarest 1822
†Ranina bavarica Ebert 1887
†Ranina berglundi Feldmann et al. 1996
†Ranina bouilleana Milne-Edwards 1872
†Ranina brevispina Lorenthey 1898
†Ranina burleighensis Holland 1958
†Ranina cretacea Dames 1886
†Ranina cuspidata Guppy 1909
†Ranina elegans Rathbun 1945
†Ranina georgiana Rathbun 1935
†Ranina granulosa Milne-Edwards 1872
†Ranina griesbachi Noetling 1897
†Ranina haszlinskyi Reuss 1859
†Ranina hirsuta Schafhautl 1863
†Ranina laevifrons Bittner 1875
Ranina laevis Latreille 1825
†Ranina lamiensis Rathbun 1945
†Ranina marestiana König 1825
†Ranina molengraaffi Van Straelen 1924
†Ranina oblonga Munster 1840
†Ranina ornata De Angeli and Beschin 2011
†Ranina palmea Sismonda 1846
†Ranina propinqua Ristori 1891
†Ranina quinquespinosa Rathbun 1945
†Ranina ranina Linnaeus 1758
†Ranina reussi Woodward 1866
†Ranina speciosa Munster 1840
†Ranina tejoniana Rathbun 1926
†Ranina trechmanni Withers 1927
G. †Raninella Milne-Edwards 1862
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†Raninella armata Rathbun 1935
†Raninella atava Carter 1898
†Raninella baltica Segerberg 1900
†Raninella carlilensis Feldmann and Maxey 1980
†Raninella circumviator Wright and Collins 1972
†Raninella elongata Milne Edwards 1862
†Raninella eocenica Rathbun 1935
†Raninella libyca Van Straelen 1935
†Raninella manningi Bishop and Williams 2000
†Raninella mucronata Rathbun 1935
†Raninella ornata Remy 1960
†Raninella schloenbachi Schluter 1879
†Raninella starkvillensis Rathbun 1935
†Raninella testacea Rathbun 1926
†Raninella trechmanni Withers 1927
†Raninella trigeri Milne-Edwards 1862
†Raninella yanini Ilyin and Alekseev 1998
G. †Vegaranina van Bakel et al. 2012
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†Vegaranina precocia Feldmann et al. 1996
†Vegaranina precocious Feldmann et al. 1996
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Pliocene or 106.30000 to 2.58000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 100.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 100.5 Ma
Collections (111 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Albian | United Kingdom (England) | Raninella elongata (234640) | |
| Albian | USA (Texas) | Raninella armata, Raninella mucronata (141130) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | USA (Texas) | Raninella sp. (52126) | |
| Cenomanian | France (Bouches-du-Rhone) | Raninella trigeri (139717) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | Lebanon | Lophoraninella cretacea (117999 127467 221158 234516) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | Lebanon (Keserwan-Jbeil) | Lophoraninella cretacea (276269) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | France (Loir-et-Cher) | Raninella trigeri, Raninella elongata (234130) | |
| Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian | France | Raninella trigeri, Raninella elongata (97634) | |
| Late/Upper Cretaceous | Mexico (Chiapas) | Lophoranina cristaspina (133542) | |
| Late/Upper Cretaceous | Cuba (Cienfuegos) | Rodanina monosensis (235287) Vegaranina rivasi, Lophoranina precocious (235283) | |
| Late/Upper Turonian | United Kingdom (England) | Raninella circumiviater (159235) | |
| Middle Turonian | USA (Kansas) | Raninella carlilensis (35063) | |
| Campanian | USA (Wyoming) | Raninella sp. (1733) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Delaware) | Notopocorystes testacea (235827) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (South Dakota) | Raninella manningi (235459) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Tennessee) | Raninella testacea (88357) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Cuba (Cienfuegos) | Vegaranina precocia (228533) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Mexico (Chiapas) | Lophoranina precocious (235365) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (Mississippi) | Notopocorystes testacea (139733) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Mississippi) | Raninella starkvillensis (142092) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (Puerto Rico) | Lophoranina precocia (89475) | |
| Danian | USA (North Dakota) | Ranina burleighensis (206136) | |
| Paleogene | Mexico (Baja California) | Lophoranina bishopi, Ranina berglundi (133561) | |
| Paleogene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Lophoranina cristaspina, Lophoranina precocious (133563) | |
| Thanetian | USA (Alabama) | Raninella eocenica (142748) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Ranina berglundi (228574) | |
| Ypresian | Italy (Vicenze) | Lophoranina maxima, Lophoranina straeleni (127545) | |
| Ypresian | Italy (Pordenone) | Lophoranina marestiana (127494) | |
| Ypresian | Spain | Alloranina arjae (210299 226427) | |
| Ypresian | Italy | Lophoranina marestiana (135461 207595) Lophoranina straeleni (226692) | |
| Ypresian | USA (California) | Ranina sp. (201621) | |
| Ypresian | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Lophoranina bishopi, Ranina berglundi (5496) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Romania | Lophoranina albeshtensis (207100) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Lophoranina bishopi (45693) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Spain (Alicante) | Ranina reussi (233210) | |
| Eocene | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Ranina berglundi (68713) | |
| Eocene | USA (California) | Ranina tejoniana (140005) | |
| Lutetian | USA (South Carolina) | Lophoranina rossi (191865 191867) Ranina sp. (5342) | |
| Lutetian | Hungary | Ranina budapestensis, Ranina marestiana, Ranina reussi (207773) Ranina sp. (190297) | |
| Lutetian | Italy | Lophoranina laevifrons (226615) Lophoranina laevifrons, Lophoranina marestiana, Lophoranina reussi (207553) Lophoranina marestiana (81057 146999 176657 207554 226785) Lophoranina marestiana, Lophoranina bittneri (135453) Lophoranina marestiana, Lophoranina reussi, Lophoranina avesana, Lophoranina bittneri (77119) Lophoranina straeleni (171515) Ranina marestiana (208032) Ranina ornata (226823) | |
| Lutetian | Italy (Veneto) | Ranina sp. (110070) | |
| Lutetian | Türkiye | Ranina tchihatcheffi (40793) | |
| Lutetian | Spain (Alicante) | Lophoranina straeleni (207104) | |
| Lutetian | Italy (Vicenza) | Lophoranina maxima (145128) | |
| Middle Eocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Lophoranina cristaspina (202297) | |
| Middle Eocene | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Lophoranina bishopi (58664) Ranina berglundi (58665) | |
| Middle Eocene | Mexico | Lophoranina cristaspina (133853) | |
| Middle Eocene | Italy | Lophoranina reussi (207551) Lophoranina reussi, Ranina marestiana, Ranina laevifrons (146598) | |
| Bartonian | USA (North Carolina) | Lophoranina raynorae (7297 7298 7299 191858 191859) Ranina sp. (5366) | |
| Bartonian | Italy | Lophoranina reussi, Lophoranina marestiana, Lophoranina avesana, Lophoranina bittneri (207786) | |
| Bartonian | USA (South Carolina) | Ranina sp. (5344 5354) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | Mexico (Baja California) | Ranina indet. (135797) | |
| Priabonian | Italy (Vicenza) | Ranina sp. 2 (184969) | |
| Priabonian | USA (Florida) | Lophoranina georgiana (3569) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | Ranina marestiana (169110) | |
| Priabonian | Slovakia | Lophoranina reussi (226455) | |
| Priabonian | Italy | Lophoranina laevifrons (207785) Lophoranina reussi (207550 226536) | |
| Priabonian | Trinidad and Tobago | Ranina porifera (135728) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | USA (Georgia) | Lophoranina georgiana (143378) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | USA (Washington) | Ranina americana (139012) | |
| Rupelian | USA (Alabama) | Ranina georgiana (101110) | |
| Rupelian | Italy | Alcespina ovadaensis (147003) | |
| Rupelian | USA (Georgia) | Ranina georgiana (101120) | |
| Rupelian | USA (Mississippi) | Lophoranina lincki (202485) Ranina georgiana (5993) | |
| Oligocene | USA (Alabama) | Ranina georgiana (143383) | |
| Chattian | USA (Washington) | Ranina americana (52362 140050) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Fiji | Ranina lamiensis (136570 136571) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Italy | Ranina sp. 1 (226839) Ranina sp. 1, Ranina pellattieroi (226824) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Ranina cuspidata (135729) | |
| Middle Miocene | Fiji | Ranina lamiensis (68294 68329) | |
| Middle Miocene | Mexico (Veracruz) | Ranina sp. (228597) | |
| Pliocene | Fiji | Ranina elegans (68180 136139) Ranina quinquespinosa (68181 136142) |