Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area
Joe S.H. Collins, René H.B. Fraaye, and John W.M. Jagt
From the late Maastrichtian of southern Limburg (The Netherlands) and northeast Belgium, three species of anomurans in as many genera and sixteen brachyuran species in fourteen genera are described. Of the anomurans, Paguristes florae and Eomunidopsis meerssensis, are new; of the brachyurans seven species and one genus are new. These are: Glyptodynomene inornata, Dromiopsis praelaevior, Dromiopsis mosae, Homolopsis declinata, Raninoides? quadrispinosus, Raniliformis occlusa and Binkchorstia euglypha. A new genus, Leptoides, is erected to contain Titanocarcinus briarti (Forir 1887) and a concise historical account of the crabs of the Liege-Limburg Maastrichtian is given.
Key words: decapod crustaceans, systematics, Maastrichtian, The Netherlands, Belgium, new taxa.
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