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Necrocarcinus oklahomensis

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae

Taxonomy
Necrocarcinus oklahomensis was named by Rathbun (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Frisco Railroad Bridge (No. 5710), 2 1/2 mi NW of Blue Springs, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Ripley Formation of Mississippi.

It was recombined as Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis by Schweitzer et al. (2003), Schweitzer et al. (2010), van Bakel et al. (2012), Karasawa et al. (2014), Schweitzer et al. (2016) and Franţescu et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Necrocarcinus oklahomensis Rathbun p. 44 figs. Plate 11, Fig. 9
2003Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Schweitzer et al. p. 36
2010Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Schweitzer et al. p. 70
2012Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis van Bakel et al. p. 49
2014Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Karasawa et al. p. 232
2016Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Franţescu et al. p. 1119
2016Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis Schweitzer et al.

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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()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
PodotremataGuinot 1977
Raninoidia(de Haan 1839)
superfamilyNecrocarcinoideaFörster 1968
familyNecrocarcinidaeForster 1968
genusNecrocarcinus
speciesoklahomensis

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semi-infaunaluc
Diet: detritivoref
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-08-23 13:44:12
Modified: 2022-08-23 13:44:12
Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade
References: Valdez and Clapham 2023, 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 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0USA (Mississippi) Necrocarcinus oklahomensis (type locality: 142007)