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Planocarcinus olssoni

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

Taxonomy
Dakoticancer olssoni was named by Rathbun (1937). Its type specimen is USNM 495104, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Junction of road to Curití, which is in an Albian marine shale in the Paja Formation of Colombia. It is the type species of Planocarcinus.

It was recombined as Necrocarcinus olssoni by Schweitzer et al. (2010); it was synonymized subjectively with Orithopsis tricarinata by Vega et al. (2010); it was recombined as Planocarcinus olssoni by Luque et al. (2012), Karasawa et al. (2014), Schweitzer et al. (2016), Luque et al. (2017) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Dakoticancer olssoni Rathbun p. 26 figs. Pl 5, fig 6
2010Necrocarcinus olssoni Schweitzer et al. p. 81
2012Planocarcinus olssoni Luque et al. p. 410 figs. 3A-C
2014Planocarcinus olssoni Karasawa et al. p. 235
2016Planocarcinus olssoni Schweitzer et al.
2017Planocarcinus olssoni Luque et al. p. 19
2018Planocarcinus olssoni Schweitzer et al. p. 10 fig. 6.4

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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()
PodotremataGuinot 1977
Raninoidia(de Haan 1839)
superfamilyNecrocarcinoideaFörster 1968
familyOrithopsidae
genusPlanocarcinus
speciesolssoni()

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.

Planocarcinus olssoni Rathbun 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available