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Calappella quadrispina

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Taxonomy
Calappella quadrispina was named by Rathbun (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 324238, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 6020a, Canal Zone, which is in an Aquitanian marine shale/mudstone in the Culebra Formation of Panama. It is the type species of Calappella.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Calappella quadrispina Rathbun p. 157 figs. Plate 58, Figs. 1, 2
2010Calappella quadrispina Schweitzer et al. p. 83
2017Calappella quadrispina Luque et al. p. 33
2019Calappella quadrispina Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 2 fig. 1.4

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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
superfamilyCalappoideaDe Haan 1833
familyCalappidaeDe Haan 1833
genusCalappella
speciesquadrispina

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.

†Calappella quadrispina Rathbun 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available