Validation of Prebranchioplax cretacica Vega & Ahyong, a fossil mathildellid crab from the Upper Cretaceous of northeast Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda: Goneplacoidea)
Author
Vega, Francisco
0000-0001-5445-8832
Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, Mexico. vegver @ unam. mx; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5445 - 8832
vegver@unam.mx
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Australian Museum, 1 William St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. & School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-21
5004
3
498
500
journal article
5309
10.11646/zootaxa.5004.3.8
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Prebranchioplax
gen. nov.
Prebranchioplax
Vega & Ahyong
in
Vega
et al
. 2018: 65
[unavailable].
Type
species
.
Prebranchioplax cretacica
sp. nov.
Gender: feminine.
Diagnosis
.
As for the
type
species.
Etymology
.
On being a possible precursor to the genus
Branchioplax
Rathbun, 1916
.