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Symethis johnsoni

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Taxonomy
Symethis johnsoni was named by Rathbun (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Prairie Creek, Sucarnochee Clays, which is in a Paleocene coastal claystone in the Sucarnochee Clay Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Giulianolyreidus.

It was recombined as Macroacaena johnsoni by Armstrong et al. (2009) and van Bakel et al. (2012); it was recombined as Giulianolyreidus johnsoni by Karasawa et al. (2014), Schweitzer et al. (2018) and Feldmann et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Symethis johnsoni Rathbun p. 83
2009Macroacaena johnsoni Armstrong et al. p. 752
2010Symethis johnsoni Schweitzer et al. p. 78
2012Macroacaena johnsoni van Bakel et al. p. 84
2014Giulianolyreidus johnsoni Karasawa et al. p. 252
2018Giulianolyreidus johnsoni Schweitzer et al. p. 20 fig. 10.3a,b
2019Giulianolyreidus johnsoni Feldmann et al.

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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()
PodotremataGuinot 1977
Raninoidia(de Haan 1839)
superfamilyRaninoideade Haan 1839
familyRaninidae
subfamilySymethinaeGoeke 1981
genusSymethisRathbun 1935
speciesjohnsoni

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.

Symethis johnsoni Rathbun 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available