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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2018-10
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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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ARANO-RUIZ, ALBERTO, LAZARO W. VIÑOLA-LÓPEZ, REINALDO ROJAS-CONSUEGRA, and CARLOS RAFAEL BORGES-SELLEN. “Re-Evaluation of the Taxonomic Status of Vegaranina (Crustacea: Raninidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Cuba, with Description of a New Species.” Zootaxa 4527, no. 4 (December 7, 2018): 588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4527.4.10.