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Elektrocarcinus pierrensis
Taxonomy
Campylostoma pierrense was named by Rathbun (1917). Its type specimen is USNM 32057, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Eastern Corson County, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota. It is the type species of Elektrocarcinus.
It was recombined as Necrocarcinus pierrensis by Rathbun (1935), Schweitzer et al. (2010) and Karasawa et al. (2014); it was recombined as Cenomanocarcinus pierrensis by van Bakel et al. (2012); it was recombined as Elektrocarcinus pierrensis by Schweitzer et al. (2016), Franţescu et al. (2016) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Necrocarcinus pierrensis by Rathbun (1935), Schweitzer et al. (2010) and Karasawa et al. (2014); it was recombined as Cenomanocarcinus pierrensis by van Bakel et al. (2012); it was recombined as Elektrocarcinus pierrensis by Schweitzer et al. (2016), Franţescu et al. (2016) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1917 | Campylostoma pierrense Rathbun p. 389 figs. Pl 33, figs 4,5 |
| 1935 | Necrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun p. 45 |
| 2010 | Necrocarcinus pierrensis Schweitzer et al. p. 81 |
| 2012 | Cenomanocarcinus pierrensis van Bakel et al. p. 54 |
| 2014 | Necrocarcinus pierrensis Karasawa et al. p. 234 |
| 2016 | Elektrocarcinus pierrensis Franţescu et al. p. 1124 |
| 2016 | Elektrocarcinus pierrensis Schweitzer et al. p. 354 fig. 6B |
| 2018 | Elektrocarcinus pierrensis Schweitzer et al. p. 7 fig. 4.3 |
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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.
†Elektrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Turnsek 1997, Fearon and Clapham 2023, Aberhan 1992, Valdez and Clapham 2023 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (South Dakota) | Campylostoma pierrense (type locality: 134956 234106) |