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Ranina cuspidata

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Taxonomy
Ranina cuspidata was named by Guppy (1909). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Machipur, near Montserrat, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
R. budapestensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Ranina cuspidata Guppy
1919Ranina cuspidata Rathbun p. 168
2010Ranina cuspidata Schweitzer et al. p. 74
2014Ranina cuspidata Karasawa et al. p. 260

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
RankNameAuthor
—CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
—Reptantia(Boas)
—MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
—PodotremataGuinot 1977
—Raninoidia(de Haan 1839)
superfamilyRaninoideade Haan 1839
familyRaninidae
subfamilyRanininaeDe Haan 1839
genusRanina
speciescuspidataGuppy 1909

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.

†Ranina cuspidata Guppy 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semi-infaunaluc
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-09-18 00:48:28
Modified: 2022-09-18 00:48:28
Source: o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade
References: Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023, Turnsek 1997

Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Trinidad and Tobago Ranina cuspidata (type locality: 135729)