Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel, 1945 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Cenomanocarcinidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Morocco

Resumen

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.