Medorippe margaretha (Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929)

Dorippe margaretha Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929: 135, pl. 6, fig. 1a-c. — Lőrenthey 1911: 528 (nomen nudum); 1913: 326 (nomen nudum). — Glaessner 1929: 137; 1969: R492, fig. 304.8. — Müller 1978: 279, 287, pl. 13, fig. 4; 1984a: 66, pl. 34, figs 1-5. — Holthuis & Manning 1990: 7.

Medorippe Margaretha – Karasawa 2000: 811, 812, table 1.

Dorippe (Medorippe) margaretha – Müller 2006: 42.

Dorippe margaretha – Schweitzer et al. 2010: 79. — Hyžný 2016: table 1. — Sasaki 2019: 7774. — Hyžný & Dulai 2021: fig. 62.1-5.

Medorippe margaretha – Guinot et al. 2013: 187. — Jagt et al. 2015: 882. — Van Bakel et al. 2020: fig. 10.34.

Dorippe sp. aff. margaretha – Polkowsky 2014: 123, pl. 125, figs 1-4.

REMARKS

By its outline, its anterolateral spine in the figre of Lőrenthey & Beurlen (1929: pl. 6, fig. 1a), its two closely spaced triangular frontal teeth, the carapace of this species, from the Miocene of Hungary, Portugal, Germany (Upper Miocene) and Hungary (Middle Miocene), indeed resembles that of extant species Medorippe lanata. In Polkowsky’s (2014: pl. 125, figs 1-4) four good figures of several Schleswig-Holstein specimens, the cardiac region does not show the characteristic Y-shaped ridge of the extant Medorippe lanata (Fig. 22A, B), and the strong tripatite branchial ridge is more reminiscent of Phyllodorippe armata (Fig. 29A, B); but the shape of the carapace, the strong lobulation, the spaced frontal teeth, the absence of a lateral spine (possibly lost) are not typical of this genus. But most importantly, the valuable figures of the holotype and other specimens provided by Hyžný & Dulai (2021: fig. 62.1-5) show the characteristic Y-shaped ridge on the cardiac region, a small spine on the carapace lateral margin, all of which are characters in favour of belonging to Medorippe, if not, at least, to the subfamily Medorippinae n.subfam. It should be noted that a second species of Medorippe, under the name of M. crosnieri (Fig. 23A, B, D), with a similar facies, including the cardiac region, probably exists, but with a still questionable status (see Remarks about Medorippe crosnieri Chen, 1988).