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Portunus oblongus

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Taxonomy
Portunus oblongus was named by Rathbun (1920). Its type specimen is USNM 328229, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 8522, Cercado de Mao, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Portunus oblongus Rathbun p. 383 figs. Pl 25, figs 3,3a
1976Portunus oblongus Collins and Morris p. 121 figs. Pl 20, figs 1-8
2009Portunus oblongus Varela and Rojas-Consuegra p. 120 fig. 1E,F
2010Portunus oblongus Schweitzer et al. p. 112
2017Portunus oblongus Luque et al. p. 21

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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
subfamilyPortuninaeRafinesque 1815
genusPortunusWeber 1795
speciesoblongus

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.

†Portunus oblongus Rathbun 1920
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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: Fearon and Clapham 2023, Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Messinian or 20.44000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene28.4 - 15.97Cuba (Matanzas) Portunus oblongus (228535)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Venezuela (Lara) Portunus oblongus (46384)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Venezuela (Falcon) Portunus oblongus (43063 228724)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Trinidad and Tobago Portunus oblongus (171483 185887 185888)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Dominican Republic Portunus oblongus (228626)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Dominican Republic Portunus oblongus (type locality: 134951)