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Scylla costata

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Taxonomy
Scylla costata was named by Rathbun (1919). Its type specimen is ANSP 2267, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lower half of Yaqui del Norte River valley, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine siliciclastic in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Scylla costata Rathbun p. 170 figs. Pl 4, figs 1,2; pl 5, figs 1,2; pl 6, figs 3-5
1930Scylla costata Rathbun p. 5
2006Scylla costata Schweitzer et al. p. 124
2010Scylla costata Schweitzer et al. p. 110
2017Scylla costata Luque et al. p. 12

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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()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
RankNameAuthor
—CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
—Reptantia(Boas)
—MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
—Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
—HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyPortunoideaRafinesque 1815
familyPortunidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyNecronectinaeGlaessner 1928
genusScyllaDe Haan 1833
speciescostata

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.

†Scylla costata Rathbun 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semi-infaunalsuperf
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-11-16 17:54:45
Modified: 2022-11-16 17:54:45
Source: superf = superfamily, o = order, c = class
References: Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 33.90000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Puerto Rico (Yauco) Scylla costata (228679)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Puerto Rico (San Sebastian) Scylla costata (228677)
Oligocene - Miocene33.9 - 5.333Mexico Scylla costata (135786)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03USA (Puerto Rico) Scylla costata (65367)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Brazil Scylla costata (112581)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Brazil (Para) Scylla costata (65162 112590)
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588Dominican Republic Scylla costata (type locality: 135462)
Langhian - Serravallian15.97 - 11.62Brazil (Para) Scylla costata (58454)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Dominican Republic Scylla costata (228617 228630 228631 228636 228637)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Dominican Republic Scylla costata (228623 228625)