Original paper
A new fossil frog crab (Brachyura, Raninoidea) from the late Campanian of Hornby Island (British Columbia, Canada)
Nyborg, Torrey; Garassino, Alessandro; Vega, Francisco J.; Ross, Richard L.M.
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 310 Heft 3 (2024), p. 209 - 217
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published: Mar 13, 2024
manuscript accepted: Dec 17, 2023
manuscript received: Nov 12, 2023
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Abstract
We report a new fossil crab from the late Campanian of the Northumberland Formation, Hornby Island (British Columbia, Canada). The studied specimen has been assigned to Bournelyreidus with B. grahamae n. sp. It represents the first report of the genus from Canada, extending its palaeogeographic distribution in the eastern Pacific. Finally, it represents the seventh species of the genus, confirming the restricted stratigraphic age of the genus to the Late Cretaceous.
Keywords
Crustacea • Decapoda • Lyreididae • Marylyreidinae • taxonomy • Northumberland Formation