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Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Volumen 65, núm. 2, 2013, p. 299-305 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2013v65n2a11 |
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Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel, 1945 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Cenomanocarcinidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco
Alessandro Garassino1,*, Giovanni Pasini2, Héctor Porras-Múzquiz3, Francisco J. Vega4
1 Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Paleontologia, Corso Venezia 55, I-20121 Milano, Italia.
2 Via Alessandro Volta 16, I-22070 Appiano Gentile (Como), Italia.
3 Museo de Múzquiz A. C., Zaragoza 209, Múzquiz, Coahuila, 26340, Mexico.
4 Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico.
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Abstract
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. vanstraelenion multiple specimens from Cenomanian-Turonian localities of Colombia, Mexico, and United States is discussed.
Keywords: Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Late Cretaceous, Morocco.
