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Cretaceous fossil Raninoida De Haan, 1839 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from northeast Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2016

Ovidiu D. Franţescu ,
Rodney M. Feldmann  and
Carrie E. Schweitzer
Ovidiu D. Franţescu
Affiliation:
Division of Physical and Computational Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Bradford, Bradford, Pennsylvania 16701, USA 〈[email protected]〉
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA 〈[email protected]〉, 〈[email protected]〉
Carrie E. Schweitzer
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark, 6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720, USA 〈[email protected]〉
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Abstract

Two new Raninoida crabs from the Cretaceous of Texas are described, Planocorystes robreidi new genus new species, and Texicancer new genus to accommodate Necrocarcinus renfroae. All the previously described raninoid-like decapods from the Pawpaw Formation have been reassigned according to Karasawa et al. (2014). Cretaceous raninoid-like crabs are the dominant taxa amongst the fossil decapods found in the Fort Worth, Texas, area, with hundreds of specimens collected. All of these fossils have been collected from limonitic nodules, and most of them present a good degree of preservation, with articulated pereiopods, pleons, venter and in rare occasions even the gills. The decapod fauna of the Pawpaw Formation represents a diverse population, with a large number of taxa in high abundance. One specimen of P. robreidi appears to exhibit a lethal bite mark.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 90 , Issue 6 , November 2016 , pp. 1118 - 1132
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