Paranecrocarcinus Van Straelen, 1936

Guinot, Danièle, Vega, Francisco J. & Van Bakel, Barry W. M., 2008, Cenomanocarcinidae n. fam., a new Cretaceous podotreme family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Raninoidia), with comments on related families, Geodiversitas 30 (4), pp. 681-719 : 681-719

Genus Paranecrocarcinus Van Straelen, 1936

Paranecrocarcinus Van Straelen, 1936: 36 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Paranecrocarcinus hexagonalis Van Straelen, 1936 by monotypy  Van Straelen 1936: 36, pl. 4, figs 6, 7), Hauterivian of Yonne, France; see Förster 1970: figs 2A, 3A.

SPECIES INCLUDED. — Paranecrocarcinus biscissus Wright & Collins, 1972 ( Wright & Collins 1972: 71, fig. 10b,

pl. 22, fig. 6) (lower Cenomanian of Devon, England), P. digitatus Wright & Collins, 1972 ( Wright & Collins 1972: 69, fig. 10a, pl. 12, fig. 7a-c) (lower Cenomanian of Devon, England), P. foersteri Wright & Collins, 1972 ( Wright & Collins 1972: 70, pl. 22, fig. 5a-c) (Cenomanian of Devon, England), P. gamma Roberts, 1962 ( Roberts 1962: 182, pl. 85, figs 7, 8, 11) (lower Campanian, New Jersey), P. graysonensis ( Rathbun, 1935: 45, pl. 11, figs 23-25 as Necrocarcinus ) (upper Albian, Texas), P. libanoticus Förster, 1968 (as Paranecrocarcinus ( Pseudonecrocarcinus )) (Cenomanian of Lebanon), P. moseleyi ( Stenzel, 1945: 441, fig. 15, pl. 41, fig. 12 as Necrocarcinus ) (upper Albian-Cenomanian, Texas), P. mozambiquensis Förster, 1970 ( Förster 1970: figs 2b, 3b) (lower Cenomanian of southern Mozambique), and P. kennedyi Wright, 1997 (see below) (see Förster 1968: 169; 1970: 134, 138; Bishop 1986: 136; Bishop & Williams 1991: 452; Wright 1997: 135, 137; Jagt et al. 2000: 40; Schweitzer & Feldmann 2000: 241, 246 key, fig. 1, table 1; 2005: 34; Collins 2002: 85; Fraaije 2002: 913; Donovan et al. 2003: table 1; Schweitzer et al. 2003a: 32, 36; Collins & Williams 2005: 33). Pseudonecrocarcinus stenzeli must be added to this list (see above).

Remarks

Presence of sterna has been mentioned in P. gamma by Bishop (1986: 136) but there is no description nor figure in Roberts (1962: 182, pl. 85, figs 7, 8, 11).

The genus Paranecrocarcinus is under study (Fraaije et al.).

The early Paranecrocarcinus kennedyi Wright, 1997 ( Wright 1997: 135, figs 7, 13) (Barremian, Zululand, South Africa), which has a trapezoidal outline, and an ornament and groove system different from those of typical Necrocarcinidae , is here excluded from the Necrocarcinidae emend.