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Roemerus ornatissimus

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Taxonomy
Necrocarcinus ornatissimus was named by Forir (1887). It is not extant. Its type locality is Montagne St-Pierre, Maestricht (Forir collection), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in the Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands.

It was recombined as Roemerus ornatissimus by Jagt et al. (2010) and Schweitzer et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Necrocarcinus ornatissimus Forir
1987Prehepatus werneri Fraaye and Collins p. 549 fig. 1,2
1995Prehepatus werneri Collins et al. p. 198 figs. 11C-G
2010Roemerus ornatissimus Jagt et al. p. 179 figs. 1A-G
2010Necrocarcinus ornatissimus Schweitzer et al. p. 81
2010Prehepatus werneri Schweitzer et al. p. 86
2014Necrocarcinus ornatissimus Karasawa et al. p. 234
2016Roemerus ornatissimus Schweitzer et al. p. 364

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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
RankNameAuthor
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
DromiaceaDe Haan 1833
genusRoemerusBishop 1983
speciesornatissimus(Forir 1887)

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.

Roemerus ornatissimus Forir 1887
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Invalid names: Prehepatus werneri Fraaye and Collins 1987 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2008-01-28 11:51:24
Modified: 2022-05-13 13:34:01
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997

Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands (Limburg) Prehepatus werneri (32167)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands Necrocarcinus ornatissimus (126558)