A new species of mecochirid lobster from the Late Cretaceous of France, preserved with its eggs Author Charbonnier, Sylvain Author Gilardet, Rémy Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR 2 P, UMR 7207), MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris, cedex 05 (France) sylvain. charbonnier @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author) remy. gilardet @ gmail. com charbonnier@mnhn.fr Author Garassino, Alessandro Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, 92350 CA (United States) alegarassino @ gmail. com alegarassino@gmail.com Author Odin, Giliane P. Laboratoire Géomatériaux et Environnement, Université Gustave Eiffel, F- 77454 Marne-la-Vallée, (France) giliane. odin @ univ-eiffel. fr text Geodiversitas 2023 2023-12-07 45 23 681 688 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2023v45a23.pdf journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a23 1638-9395 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9334BF4F-0364-4466-8504-8875FC26F644 Genus Mecochirus Germar, 1827 TYPE SPECIES . — Macrourites longimanatus Schlotheim, 1820 , subsequent designation of Woods (1927: 64) . INCLUDED FOSSIL SPECIES . — Mecochirus clypeatus (Carter, 1898) (Bathonian, United Kingdom ); M. germari Garassino, 1996 (Sinemurian, Italy ); M. lanceolatus Jell, Woods & Cook, 2017 (Aptian, Australia ); M. leionoton (Krause, 1891) (Tithonian, Germany ); M. longimanatus (Schlotheim, 1820) (Tithonian, Germany ); M. marwicki Glaessner, 1960 (Kimmeridgian, New Zealand ); M. mcclymontorum Jell, Woods & Cook, 2017 (Aptian, Australia ); M. meyeri (Roemer, 1836) (Kimmeridgian, Germany ); M. peytoni Woodward, 1876 (Kimmeridgian, France ); M. robbianoi Pagani, Damborenea, Manceñido & Ferrari, 2011 (Toarcian, Argentina ); M. cenomanicus n. sp. (Cenomanian, France ) (this work).