Published November 13, 2025 | Version v1
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Cretapalibythus Charbonnier & Garassino & Brochet 2025, n. gen.

  • 1. Centre de recherche en paléontologie - Paris (CR 2 P UMR 7207), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 2. Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, 92350 CA (United States)
  • 3. 3 Allée Élisa Deroche, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne (France)

Description

Genus Cretapalibythus n. gen.

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ETYMOLOGY. — The generic name is a combination of the Cretaceous period and the extant synaxid Palibythus Davie, 1990, that shows many morphological affinities with the new genus. The gender of the genus is masculine.

TYPE SPECIES. — Cretapalibythus moniquae n. sp.

DIAGNOSIS. — Elongate, subrectangular carapace as wide as anteriorly and posteriorly; broad rostrum, wider than long, with pointed extremity; rostral lateral margins marked by a rimmed, unarmed carinae ending in a subacute spine; tuberculate post-rostral carinae; large concave post-orbital margin; one elongate, prominent, unarmed anterolateral spine; deep cervical groove; dorsal carapace covered with small pits uniformly arranged.

Notes

Published as part of Charbonnier, Sylvain, Garassino, Alessandro & Brochet, Richard, 2025, A new furry lobster (Achelata, Synaxidae) and a forgotten crab (Brachyura, Homolidae) from the Early Cretaceous of France, pp. 739-747 in Geodiversitas 47 (21) on page 741, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a21, http://zenodo.org/record/17616798

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Charbonnier & Garassino & Brochet
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Synaxidae
Genus
Cretapalibythus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Cretapalibythus Charbonnier, Garassino & Brochet, 2025

References

  • DAVIE P. J. 1990. - A new genus and species of marine crayfish, Palibythus magnificus, and new records of Palinurellus (Decapoda, Palinuridae) from the Pacific Ocean. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 685-695. https://doi.org/10.1071/it9900685