Validation of Cretalamoha boweni Nyborg & Garassino (Brachyura: Homolidae) from the early Campanian, Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada
Author
Nyborg, Torrey
Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, U. S. A.
Author
Garassino, Alessandro
Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, U. S. A.
Author
Vega, Francisco J.
Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, México DF 04510, Mexico
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-18
5318
1
148
150
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5318.1.8
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Genus
Cretalamoha
gen. nov.
Cretalamoha
Nyborg & Garassino, 2017: 137
[unavailable].
Type
species.
Cretalamoha boweni
sp. nov.
Gender: feminine.
Diagnosis.
As for the
type
species.
Etymology
.
After the Cretaceous, the geological age of the studied specimen, and
Lamoha
Ng, 1998
, which shares some morphological characters with the new genus.