Re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Vegaranina (Crustacea: Raninidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Cuba, with description of a new species

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作者
Arano-Ruiz, Alberto [1 ]
Vinola-Lopez, Lazaro W. [2 ]
Rojas-Consuegra, Reinaldo [3 ]
Rafael Borges-Sellen, Carlos [1 ]
机构
[1] Soc Cubana Geol, Cienfuegos, Cuba
[2] Montana State Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[3] Inst Invest Petr, Havana, Cuba
关键词
Fossil; Vegaranina rivasi sp. nov; Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian; DECAPODA; PHYLOGENY; CHIAPAS;
D O I
10.11646/zootaxa.4527.4.10
中图分类号
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号
071002 ;
摘要
A new species of raninid crustacean, Vegaranina rivasi sp. nov, is described based on three specimens collected from a Late Cretaceous deposit in central Cuba. Previous studies assigned one of the specimens to Vegaranina precocia (Feldmann, Vega, Tucker, Garcia-Barrera & Avendano, 1996), a species described from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. However, after collecting the new specimens and recent major revisions of the group, we identified a unique combination of characters in the Cuban specimens that separate them from the other species in the genus.
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页码:588 / 594
页数:7
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