Review of the Late Jurassic erymoid lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda)
Author
Devillez, Julien
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie – Paris (CR 2 P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Université, MNHN, UPMC, CNRS, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Parix cedex 05 Paris (France)
julien.devillez@edu.mnhn.fr
Author
Charbonnier, Sylvain
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie – Paris (CR 2 P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Université, MNHN, UPMC, CNRS, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Parix cedex 05 Paris (France)
sylvain.charbonnier@mnhn.fr
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Geodiversitas
2021
2021-01-28
43
2
25
73
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a2
a2545208-1888-44e9-82d3-b429219cd070
1638-9395
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Eryma major
Oppel, 1861
(
Fig. 7
A-C)
Eryma major
Oppel, 1861: 358
;
1862: 37
, pl. 8, fig. 3.
—
Schweitzer
et al.
2010: 24
.
—
Devillez
et al.
2016: 524
.
Erymastacus major
–
Schweigert
et al.
2000: 8
, pl. 3, figs 4-5.
—
Dietl & Schweigert 2001: 54
, fig. 88.
—
Schweigert & Garassino 2003: 178
, fig. 2B.
—
Hyžný
et al.
2015: 375
, 376.
TYPE MATERIAL. —
Holotype
SMNS 3682
. TYPE LOCALITY. — Nusplingen,
Baden-Württemberg
,
Germany
. TYPE AGE. — Kimmeridgian.
DESCRIPTION
Thoracic appendages
Chelate P1; elongated P1 propodus, subrectangular, dorsoventrally compressed, with a longitudinal bulge on ventral surface; narrow dactylar bulge, slightly bulged, not posteriorly delimited by a groove; slender, elongated fingers, almost straight; occlusal margins with wide conical teeth, regularly spaced; P1 carpus short, subtriangular; elongated P1 merus.
Ornamentation
P1 propodus and fingers densely covered by fine tubercles.
DISCUSSION This species is only known by some isolated P1, mainly from the lithographic limestones of southern
Germany
. The subrectangular, dorso-ventrally compressed propodus with long and narrowing fingers justifies the assignation to
Eryma
.
Eryma major
is only known by some fragments of P1, so the comparisons are restricted to the species for which the P1 are also known (
E. georgeii
,
E. jungostrix
,
E. lerasi
,
E. mandelslohi
,
E. modestiforme
,
E. quadriverrucatum
,
E. veltheimii
,
E. ventrosum
,
E. westphali
). The straight fingers of
E. major
are clearly distinct from the curved ones of
E. georgeii
,
E. lerasi
,
E. mandelslohi
,
E. veltheimii
,
E.ventrosum
, and
E.westphali
. The propodus of
E. major
is also shorter than that of
E. veltheimii
and
E. westphali
. The propodus of
E. major
is covered by tubercles while that of
E. veltheimii
and
E. westphali
is smooth and that of
E. modestiforme
is covered by small depressions.