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Laeviranina ovalis

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Taxonomy
Raninoides ovalis was named by Rathbun (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Prairie Creek, Sucarnochee Clays, which is in a Paleocene coastal claystone in the Sucarnochee Clay Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Quasilaeviranina.

It was recombined as Laeviranina ovalis by Glaessner (1960); it was recombined as Quasilaeviranina ovalis by Tucker (1998), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Karasawa et al. (2014), Martínez-Díaz et al. (2017), Luque et al. (2017) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Raninoides ovalis Rathbun p. 81 figs. Plate 18, figures 1-8
1960Laeviranina ovalis Glaessner
1998Quasilaeviranina ovalis Tucker p. 357
2010Quasilaeviranina ovalis Schweitzer et al. p. 75
2014Quasilaeviranina ovalis Karasawa et al. p. 257
2017Quasilaeviranina ovalis Luque et al. p. 42
2017Quasilaeviranina ovalis Martínez-Díaz et al. p. 73
2018Quasilaeviranina ovalis Schweitzer et al. p. 35 fig. 19.2a,b

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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
subfamilyRaninoidinaeLorenthey and Beurlen 1929
genusLaeviranina
speciesovalis()

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.

Laeviranina ovalis Rathbun 1935
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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: Paleocene or 66.00000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0USA (Alabama) Raninoides ovalis (type locality: 87816)