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Pustulina dawsoni

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Erymidae

Taxonomy
Eryma dawsoni was named by Woodward (1900). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Northeast side of Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Spray Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Phlyctisoma dawsoni by Feldmann and McPherson (1980); it was recombined as Pustulina dawsoni by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Feldmann et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1900Eryma dawsoni Woodward p. 400 figs. Pl 16, fig 2
1926Eryma dawsoni Rathbun p. 128
1980Phlyctisoma dawsoni Feldmann and McPherson p. 4 figs. Pl 1, figs 4,5; text-fig 2
2010Pustulina dawsoni Schweitzer et al. p. 26
2015Pustulina dawsoni Feldmann et al. p. 4 fig. 3.1c

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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
RankNameAuthor
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
infraorderGlypheideaWinckler 1882
superfamilyErymoideaVan Straelen 1924
familyErymidaeVan Straelen 1924
genusPustulinaQuenstedt 1857
speciesdawsoni()

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.

Pustulina dawsoni Woodward 1900
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: infaunalf
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-11-16 16:11:34
Modified: 2022-11-16 16:11:34
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023, Turnsek 1997

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

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Canada (British Columbia) Eryma dawsoni (type locality: 123791)