Abstract

GARASSINO, Alessandro; PASINI, Giovanni; PORRAS-MUZQUIZ, Héctor  and  VEGA, Francisco J.. Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel, 1945 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Cenomanocarcinidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco. Bol. Soc. Geol. Mex [online]. 2013, vol.65, n.2, pp.299-305. ISSN 1405-3322.

Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel, 1945 (Cenomanocarcinidae Guinot, Vega and Van Bakel, 2008) is reported from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco. The discovery of Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni along the antique Northern Atlantic Moroccan coast may suggest a distribution of the genus from the Western Central Atlantic to the African coasts following two different directions. In addition, the morphological variation of C. vanstraeleni on multiple specimens from Cenomanian-Turonian localities of Colombia, Mexico, and United States is discussed.

Keywords : Crustacea; Decapoda; Brachyura; Late Cretaceous; Morocco.

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