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Ranina georgiana

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Taxonomy
Ranina georgiana was named by Rathbun (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is St. Stephens Bluff, Tombigbee River, which is in an Oligocene marine limestone in the Glendon Formation of Alabama.

It was recombined as Lophoranina georgiana by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Karasawa et al. (2014), Luque et al. (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Ranina georgiana Rathbun p. 97 figs. Plate 21, figures 7, 8
2010Lophoranina georgiana Schweitzer et al. p. 73
2014Lophoranina georgiana Karasawa et al. p. 260
2017Lophoranina georgiana Luque et al. p. 47

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
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
speciesgeorgiana

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 georgiana 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: Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023

Age range: Rupelian or 33.90000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3USA (Alabama) Ranina georgiana (101110)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3USA (Mississippi) Ranina georgiana (5993)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3USA (Georgia) Ranina georgiana (101120)
Oligocene33.9 - 23.04USA (Alabama) Ranina georgiana (type locality: 143383)