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Costacopluma concava

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae

Taxonomy
Costacopluma concava was named by Collins and Morris (1975). Its type specimen is BM. In. 44642, a carapace (complete carapace), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Anofia, Afikpo Division, which is in a Campanian offshore shale in the Nkporo Shale Formation of Nigeria. It is the type species of Costacopluma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Costacopluma concava Collins and Morris p. 823
2010Costacopluma concava Schweitzer et al. p. 99

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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()
—Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
—HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyRetroplumoideaGill 1894
familyRetroplumidaeGill 1894
genusCostacopluma
speciesconcava

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.

†Costacopluma concava Collins and Morris 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available