Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area

Abstract

From the late Maastrichtian of southern Limburg [The Netherlands) and northeast Belgium, three species of anomurans in as many genera and sixteen brachyuran species in fourteen genera are described. Of the anomurans, PaguristesJorae and Eomunidopsis meerssensis, are new; of the brachyurans seven species and one genus are new. These are: Glyptodynomene inomata, Dromiopsis praelaevior, Dromiopsis mosae, Homolopsis declinata, Raninoides? quadrispinosus, Ranili$ormis occlusa and Binkhorstia euglypha. A new genus, Leptoides, is erected to contain Titanocarcinus briarti (Forir 1887) and a concise historical account of the crabs of the Liege-Limburg Maastrichtian is given.