Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009

Klompmaker, Adiël A., Martin, P. George, Hyžný, Matúš, Bowman, Andrew R., Phillips, George E. & Portell, Roger W., 2025, Systematics, biodiversity, and paleoecology of an early Danian decapod crustacean assemblage from Alabama, United States, Geodiversitas 47 (13), pp. 577-622 : 599-600

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https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2024v47a13

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17243652

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Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009
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Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009

( Fig. 16 View FIG ; Table 1 View TABLE ; Appendix 1G, H View APPENDIX )

Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009: 756 View in CoL , figs 5.14-5.20; 6.1. — Martínez-Díaz et al. 2016: figs 5.14, 6.6.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. United States • 1 specimen; Texas, Limestone County, quarry c. 2 miles west of Mexia ( c. 31°40’12”N, 96°34’11”W); Wills Point Formation, Mexia Clay Member ; Paleocene (upper Danian); NPL 31172 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Paratypes. United States • 1 specimen; same as for the holotype; NPL 31173 View Materials GoogleMaps 1 specimen; idem; NPL 31174 View Materials GoogleMaps 1 specimen; idem; NPL 31175 View Materials GoogleMaps 1 specimen; idem; NPL 31176 View Materials GoogleMaps 1 specimen; idem; MGSB 75425 GoogleMaps .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. — United States • 6 specimens; Texas, Limestone County, Hanson Quarry; Wills Point Formation, Mexia Clay Member ; Paleocene (upper Danian); MMNS IP-7396 .

TYPE HORIZON. — Mexia Clay Member of the Wills Point Formation, upper Danian.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Quarry c. 2 miles west of Mexia ( c. 31°40’12”N, 96°34’11”W), Limestone County, Texas, United States.

DIAGNOSIS. — Referral is made to Armstrong et al. (2009: 756).

MEASUREMENTS. — See Table 1. View TABLE

DESCRIPTION

Referral is made to Armstrong et al. (2009: 756).

REMARKS

Costacopluma texana is morphologically close to C. nicksabani n. sp., but differs in several aspects. For details see the comparisons under C. nicksabani n. sp.

MMNS

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

SuperFamily

Retroplumoidea

Family

Retroplumidae

Genus

Costacopluma

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Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009

Klompmaker, Adiël A., Martin, P. George, Hyžný, Matúš, Bowman, Andrew R., Phillips, George E. & Portell, Roger W. 2025
2025
Loc

Costacopluma texana Armstrong, Nyborg, Bishop, Ossó-Morales & Vega, 2009: 756

ARMSTRONG A. & NYBORG T. & BISHOP G. A. & OSSO-MORALES A. & VEGA F. J. 2009: 756
2009
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