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Raninella testacea

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Taxonomy
Raninella testacea was named by Rathbun (1926). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dave Weeks place, Coon Creek, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Ripley Formation of Tennessee.

It was recombined as Notopocorystes testacea by Bishop (1983); it was recombined as Cretacoranina testacea by van Bakel et al. (2012), Feldmann et al. (2013), Karasawa et al. (2014), Schweitzer et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Raninella testacea Rathbun
1935Raninella testacea Rathbun p. 50
1983Notopocorystes testacea Bishop p. 419 fig. 3M
2010Raninella testacea Schweitzer et al. p. 75
2012Cretacoranina testacea van Bakel et al. p. 19
2013Cretacoranina testacea Feldmann et al. p. 25 fig. 11
2014Cretacoranina testacea Karasawa et al. p. 239
2018Cretacoranina testacea Schweitzer et al. p. 16 fig. 8.4a,b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
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
genusRaninellaMilne-Edwards 1862
speciestestaceaRathbun 1926

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.

Raninella testacea Rathbun 1926
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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: Turnsek 1997, Fearon and Clapham 2023, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Delaware) Notopocorystes testacea (235827)
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Tennessee) Raninella testacea (type locality: 88357)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (Mississippi) Notopocorystes testacea (139733)