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Mursilia ecristata

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Taxonomy
Mursilia ecristata was named by Rathbun (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 135219, a claw, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Station 18, Gatun beds (Hill collection), which is in a Tortonian marine siliciclastic in the Gatun Formation of Panama. It is the type species of Mursilia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Mursilia ecristata Rathbun p. 160 figs. Plate 57, Fig. 27
2010Mursilia ecristata Schweitzer et al. p. 84
2019Mursilia ecristata Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 3 fig. 3.1

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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
genusMursilia
speciesecristata

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.

†Mursilia ecristata Rathbun 1918
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Diagnosis
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