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The oldest record of Lophoranina (Decapoda: Raninidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Chiapas, Southeastern Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Rodney M. Feldmann ,
Francisco Vega ,
Annette B. Tucker ,
Pedro Garcia-Barrera  and
Javier Avendaño
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Francisco Vega
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geología, UNAM. Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F. 04510
Annette B. Tucker
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Pedro Garcia-Barrera
Affiliation:
Museo de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F. 04510
Javier Avendaño
Affiliation:
Instituto de Historia Natural del Estado de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
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Abstract

The description of Lophoranina precocious new species from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Ocozocuautla Formation, Chiapas, México, represents the first occurrence of Lophoranina in pre-Eocene strata. The discovery provides documentation that the evolutionary development of terraced lines in the genus trended from relatively few, undivided, symmetrical terraces to more numerous, divided, asymmetrical terraces, and that the overall carapace surface developed a lower relief and became more uniform through time. Terraced lines that appear to be nodose, in most cases, were probably spinose. The morphology of the dorsal carapace seems to support affinities of the Raninidae with the Homolidae.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , March 1996 , pp. 296 - 303
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