Orithopsis Carter 1872
Description
Genus Orithopsis Carter, 1872
Orithopsis Carter, 1872: 530.
Type species. Necrocarcinus tricarinatus Bell, 1863, by monotypy (= Orithopsis bonneyi Carter, 1872).
Species included. Orithopsis angelica (Fraaije, 2002) (Fig. 22G), O. carinata (Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson, 1993), O. ? iserica (Fritsch in Fritsch & Kafka, 1887), O. ? youngi (Bishop, 1983c), O. siouxensis (Feldmann, Awotua & Welshenbaugh, 1976), O. ? transiens (Fritsch in Fritsch & Kafka, 1887), and O. tricarinata (Bell, 1863).
Remarks. Schweitzer et al. (2010: 82) listed only O. bonneyi and O. tricarinatus [sic] for Orithopsis. The synonymy of these two taxa had previously been, however, discussed at length by Wright & Collins (1972), Collins (2003) and Guinot et al. (2008); our examination of the types of both taxa substantiates that view. Larghi (2004: 530) stated that Orithopsis was one of the genera most similar to Corazzatocarcinus and separated them by the ‘marked hexagonal outline and distinct epibranchial lobes’ of Orithopsis. Reduction of both P4 and P 5 in Corazzatocarcinus sets it apart from Orithopsis and excludes it from Orithopsidae.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Orithopsidae
- Genus
- Orithopsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Carter
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orithopsis Carter, 1872 sec. Bakel, Guinot, Artal, Fraaije & Jagt, 2012
References
- Carter, J. (1872) On Orithopsis Bonneyi, a new fossil crustacean. Geological Magazine, 9, 529 - 532, pl. 13, fig. 1.
- Bell, T. (1863) A monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain. Part II. Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society (London), 14, vii + 40 pp., pls. 1 - 11.
- Fraaije, R. H. B. (2002) New calappid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the late Maastrichtian of the Netherlands. Journal of Paleontology, 76, 913 - 917.
- Feldmann, R. M., Tshudy, D. M. & Thomson, M. R. A. (1993) Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir, 28, 1 - 41.
- Fritsch, A. & Kafka, J. (1887) Die Crustaceen der bohmischen Kreideformation, 53 pp., 10 pls. Fr. R ivnac, Praha.
- Bishop, G. A. (1983 c) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Lower Cretaceous, Glen Rose Limestone of Central Texas. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 20, 27 - 55, pls. 1 - 3.
- Feldmann, R. M., Awotua, E. E. B. & Welshenbaugh, J. (1976) Necrocarcinus siouxensis a new species of calappid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Fox Hills Formation (Cretaceous: Maastrichtian) of North Dakota. Journal of Paleontology, 50, 985 - 990, pl. 1.
- Wright, C. W. & Collins, J. S. H. (1972) British Cretaceous crabs. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society (London), 126 (533), 1 - 114, 22 pls.
- Guinot, D., Vega, F. J. & Van Bakel, B. W. M. (2008) Cenomanocarcinidae n. fam., a new Cretaceous podotreme family (Crustacea, Brachyura, Raninoidia), with comments on related families. Geodiversitas, 30, 681 - 719.
- Larghi, C. (2004) Brachyuran decapod Crustacea from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon. Journal of Paleontology, 78, 528 - 541.