these biota indicate a nearshore environment (Brouwer,. 1963). The molluscan fauna includes amongst other spe- cies the bivalves. Arctica islandica islandica.
Contr. Tert.
Geol.
Quatern.
Cancer
parvidens,
from
3
28(1)
the
a
crab
new
Miocene
of
Leiden,
pi.
1991
August
(Crustacea, Decapoda) Netherlands
The
Collins
J.S.H. London,
1
figs,
17
Great Britain
and
R.H.B.
& R.H.B.
Collins, J.S.H., Tert.
A
Fraaye.
Quatern. Geol., 28(1):
new
of
species
crab,
The
Netherlands.
Key
words
1-7,
Cancer
Cancer 3
figs,
parvidens, 1
63
Oakhurst
parvidens, closely
Grove,
East
new
crab
pi. Leiden, August
related
Crustacea, Decapoda, Miocene,
J.S.H. Collins,
a
The
Dulwich,
to the
from the
(Crustacea, Decapoda)
Miocene
of The Netherlands.
—
Contr.
1991.
extant
Netherlands,
London
Fraaye
The Netherlands
Boxtel,
SE22
species,
new
Cancer
pagurus Linné,
1758,
is described
from the Miocene
of
taxon.
9AH,
Great
Britain;
R.H.B.
St.
Fraaye,
5291
Lambertusweg 4,
NB
The Netherlands.
Boxtel,
Contents STRATIGRAPHY
Introduction
p.
Stratigraphy
p.
History
of the
Systematic
Cancer
genus
1 1
2 p.
description
p.
Acknowledgements
p.
References
p.
3 5 5
In
the
sand
brickyard mum
depth
crane.
and
at
At
a
sandy
In the
summer
material of 1986
carapace,
preserved
sand,
found
at
was
in
near
the
Cancer cf.
collecting by
Mr L.
and
served
tylus.
others
carapace,
Brabant,
was
therefore
pagurus Linne, his
on
the basis
the historical
area
was
tentatively
1758. Intensive son
O. Stolzen-
another much better pre-
yielded well
The Nether-
orbitofrontal
Stolzenbach,
as
glauconitic
Hoogdonk' brickyard
as
two
propodi
The purpose of this paper is
species
1758.
concretion of
the
specimen
identified as
bach
a
the 'De
Unfortunately,
missing;
large, heavily
of Noord
Liessel, province
lands.
a
crushed crab
of this
background
to
and
a
describe
material and
to
of Miocene Cancer
dac-
a new
sieve
veyed
Liessel, of 40
depth
in
c.
rich
situ.
The
pipeline here
The
glauconitic
assigned
to
Formation
the
bordering
on
fossils is
on
to
Staalduinen
non-marine
discuss
of considerable thickness
Linne,
and several
et
(the
the southeastern a
Due
to
is
provi-
through
material is The
from
the
floating
part
coarse-
clays
are
of the Breda
1979).
area
con-
fossils
crane.
sandy
al.,
the
collect
to
passed
brickyard.
and
floating
a
sediment
then
collected
maxi-
a
glauconitic sands
possible
deck of the sands
to
of
help
fine-grained the
Hoogdonk'
occur.
not
deck,
Embayment
is found
ments are
with the
marine Miocene
(van
Rhine
it
'De
excavated
excavated
were
on
are
25 metres, in
quarrying
grained material
lands)
of
after which the
by
described
Lower
metres
the
near
sands
accumulated
sionally a
clay pit
clays
underwater Introduction
and
in
In
the
Germany
The Netherpart of
sedimentary
consisting
of
sequence
sands,
clays
lignite horizons. These terrestrial sedi-
of Late
Oligocene, Middle and Late Mio-
2
Fig.
Simplified lithological log, stratigraphic interpretation
1
Liessel
cene
locality.
and
age
Plant
with
interfingering
the Breda Formation
of the
macrofossils typical
occurs
marine
of
strata
Staalduinen et
(van
and indication
Inden
al.,
and
considerable
number of
beds.
In
addition
described below these diverse
fauna
echinoids,
of
and
other
Radwanski & indicate
a
beds
have
the
ichnotaxa
Fraaye,
in
crab far
so
gastropods,
shark
(e.g.
bones),
the
to
bivalves,
vertebrates
bird and whale sp.
of
fragments
lignite
amber have been collected from the
even
conitic
teeth,
the
of the
found
1758),
assumed
remanié
Glossus
(?
sturgeon
prep.).
All
nearshore environment
yielded
of
a
bones,
Ophiomorpha coprolites, these biota
(Brouwer,
1963).
bivalves
Arctica
islandica
islandica
(Linne,
the
a
&
van
1987).
started order
to
to
drill
a
age
assignment
described herein. material has
not
provenance
a
of
more
the
F3
Zone;
Survey
& has
the brick-
stratigraphic
that the results accurate
new
crab
strati-
species
Because of the fact that the type
been collected in situ
in
1862),
Zagwijn
near
detailed
the
which sug-
(Moll.
hoped
It is
and
(Koch,
Geological
at the
Member.
Glycymeris
1965,
1987;
borehole
more
area.
Clay
1854),
(Beyrich,
of that borehole will allow
its
bolli
Leeuwen,
collected
1835),
de Poel,
Scaphella
obtain
data for the Liessel
graphic
Brunssum
(Nyst,
van
The Dutch
recently in
sp.,
macrofossils
of the
Middle-Late Miocene age
Hager,
yard
&
bicoronata
Sliggers
see
base
lunulatus
Conus
and Semicassis
of
provenance
at
obovata baldii Glibert
gests
serpulids,
teleost
ichnofossil
glau-
material
The molluscan fauna includes amongst other spe-
cies
are
gastropods
1979). A
Beds
Figure
1
is
,
indication of
provisional
at
best.
3
HISTORY
OF
GENUS
THE
that there is
CANCER
difference between C.
no
and C.
illyricus
sismondai.
Although
sixteen
some
early Tertiary
Cretaceous and
genera
have
regarded
or
be
record
the earliest
Cancer bittneri
4
and
from
on
of Cancer
fossil
listed the
(1975)
(1929)
the
spe-
are:
Auversian
Cancer cf.
5
Cancer
The
4
Cancer
carniolicus A.
deshayesii
Cancer nodosulus
4
Cancer
4
new
{ Reuss,
rietmanni
1867) 1872
Mayer,
in Glaessner
in brackets
(Cancer
nudum
nomen
(1929)
his
on
achieved
Cancer sismondai
4
Cancer cf.
fixed
Cancer
1883
styriacus Bittner,
Cancer
1898
szontaghi Lorenthey,
and 4
Cancer
4
Cancer ?
Noord
1867
Quenstedt,
and
ornament
The numbers
(1975)
Nations's
are
and
species unverified by him,
and
those
5,
signify:
acceptable
Glaessner
who
(1984 a), figures
cer
the doubt
that
until the
holotype
& Donadeo the
var.
Miiller
decapod
a
with
as
erected
the
junior
type
preceded by
(p.
112)
synonymy
them
a
new
species,
synonym.
Crustacea
addendum the
Sole & Via
Cancer
syndrew
(1988)
authors have
species.
&
over
is
deshayesii
the
fig-
(1969: R509) and is recognised by
(1989).
spite
speci-
new
consider
Bon-
(1982a)
(1946)
is
genus,
Iasadia,
a
DESCRIPTION
1907
Borradaile,
Section
Brachyrhyncha
Family
Cancridae Latreille,
Genus
Cancer
1803
1758
Linne,
Can-
concur.
figured by
SYSTEMATIC
junior
—
Type species quent
Cancer
range
pagurus Linne,
of Latreille
designation
Stratigraphic
—
Cancer
as
was
paper
of Maxia
ured in Glaessner
some
the
Miocene
subse-
1758, by
(1810).
to
Recent.
sismondai.
(1984b)
carniolicus
szontaghi
antiatina
of C.
who
(1982 a, b),
and
prudent
it is
or
two
with
species
Miiller
by
found." The present authors
are
synonym
to
but
species
by
been
description
sismondai is well documented and
figlio
C.
1867
"Reuss's
the
represent
Cancer
subsequently
Reuss,
that,
to
the genera Microdium and Cancer in
similarities
of all mens
well fuse
to
stated
referred
has
Microdium
to
was
but
deshayesii
attention
to
refuted
in
sismondai and Gomez-Alba
identity of these
Limburg
Bonfiglio
onymy of C.
placed
by
near
differences in the
to
(1982a)
of
(1949)
chelae.
C.
dactyli
Beringe,
at
provinces
the
The
and from the Peel
Holthuis
of
of
Stemerdink
4,
Cancer nodulosus
for
misprint
species
(1929),
returned
not
this
1867);
(Reuss,
a
at
grounds of
shape
The
described
Donadeo
him. Cancer nodosulus is
the
on
North
deshayesii:
were
identification of this
(1929)
earlier
provinces.
Miocene
Limburg
Brabant.
Cancer sismondai
diversity of
Gelderland;
the borders of the
on
Glaessner's sp.
of
of
been dis-
eastern
or
C.
to
chelae
province
its
opinion.
the
from boreholes
sp.
Cancerites molassicus
4
(1949)
Venlo, province
district 4
western
from
of
fingers
Winterswijk,
sismondai
times
affect this
not
Cancer
part)
near
4
does
figure
indicate
Javanese
or
the
who considered
(1975),
Netherlands has been limited
1843
Meyer,
von
in any of
Japanese
species
Holthuis 4
of Cancer has
Miocene
by
The
Basin.
distribution and
widespread
from
doubtful.
Nations
length by
the
Palaeocar-
with
1862
fragmentary dactylus;
a
palaeobiogeography at
Hitherto,
and
signifying doubt
Paris
of the
Cancer remains
to
American,
1883
illyricus Bittner,
fragments which
Edwards,
is of
1867)
origins, possibly
1861
Edwards,
Milne
Milne
(Eocene)
(Quenstedt,
form 4
ignotus
cussed
1883
Bittner,
A.
Nations
1803: The material of
compared by Quenstedt (1867)
pilius
that
and
(1929)
Cancerides molassicus consists of limb
affinity species
Glaessner
\sic
Cancerides Latreille,
=
fossil
1904
Toula,
Cancer carniolicus
4
other
to
occurrence
the Miocene
1969;
to
up
assigned
in his admirable work
(1975)
Glaessner
from
been
Cancerites
(1975)]
indeterminate and Glaessner
Miocene. Nations
cies
listed by Glaess-
were
were
accepted
the genus,
since
as
and Nations
(1969)
to
all
(1929),
ner
Cancer from the
of
species
of I.
separately
the
PI. included
C.
While still in press this
Midler's work
of
he
and
for
(1984 a)
Badenian
relegated
on
in
the
an
C. bittneri Toula also
carniolica. Miiller
and
Although
(1984 a)
he
dealt
considered
Derivation
of
parvidens
sp.
1; text-figs 2,
—
name
With
nov.
3
reference
to
the
small
median frontal lobe.
Diagnosis rolateral
ginal
—
Carapace broadly
margin
lobes
slightly
broadly
ovate
concave
rounded
median lobe much reduced.
to
with the
anteriorly, truncate;
ante-
mar-
frontal
4
Material
Holotype,
—
paratypes,
a
(MAB k.0027)
in
the
a
collections
of
the
a
propodus all
(MAB k.0028),
dactylus
Miocene of Liessel
from the
(MAB k.0025);
carapace
(MAB k.0026a-b),
carapace and
a
(Noord Brabant),
GeoCentrum
and
Brabant,
Boxtel. The
carapace
third wider than
one
6th anterolateral
tudinally and
in
is
section it is
divided
before
by
truncate, lateral
anterolateral
curved
concave
anterior
grooves
leading
seven
strongly form
towards
a
the
back
to
a
from broad, selves
orbital
gently
separated
posterior
spines
a
the
apparently Small,
two
but
Deep
(rostral)
them-
The upper orbital
tubercles.
marginal
nar
extensor
occur
scars
lobe,
more
marginal
margin
is
Fig. parvidens
sp.
nov.,
propodus (MAB k.0027), bant,
Boxtel.
Miocene
of
Collection
Approximately
natural
Liessel, paratype
GeoCentrum size.
Bra-
from
low,
two
median-
preserved. with
shortly
position
minute
flat
behind
the
of the
anten-
muscle
marginal
closer
the
Cancer
on
belong
to
this
lection
opposite
convex;
the the
parvidens
lower
Miocene
with
and
upper
is
con-
towards the dis-
margin
2nd),
of
recedes ordi-
ridges
surface of Cancer
nov.,
GeoCentrum
its
margin
the four
uppermost (-
cemented
dactylus,
The pro-
species.
concave
outer
sp.
a
cancroid
height distally, the
dactylus (MAB k.0028) ered with
and
essentially
straight interdigital
discernible;
3.
midline
propodus
are
proximally, becoming third. The
to
lobes.
increases in
weakly
narily present
Cancer
a
lobes.
protogastric
crowded
postero-ventrally. Only three of
2.
of
triangular
median dorsoventral
crushed
certainly
podus slightly
Fig.
a
less level with the 6th
or
'left-handed',
almost
are
base
Details of the
lobes mark the
somewhat
both
tal
is
muscles;
into
short
a
while the attachment for the internal mandible
the 7th
vex
lobes and
indentations
adductor muscles lie
A
well
not
are
Vague
first
the
at
subdivided into
are
distinct rounded lobes.
surface
sub-
divided
only vaguely distinguished
epibranchial lobes
areas
broad
a
shallow grooves separate the
somewhat bilobed
dorsal
and
fairly large
are
lies
process
protogastric
lobe is
subtriangular,
The
lobe
coalescing
mesogastric
which
the
one
margin.
tumidities. The apex of
mesogastric
from the
process
inner
behind the first
lobes
them from
lobes
hepatic
the
set
are
marginal
postfrontal depression,
posterior
separate
lobes,
anterior
ridge
a
lobes
epigastric
anterolateral
triangular
but
angle;
the lateral half of the
on
hepatic furrow separates
three low
orbital
outer
and
medially
upraised
obscure,
are
occurs
ovate
the
and
reaching the
notches
marginal
The
rounded inner
from
level.
with
angles.
sulcus,
to
postero-
concave
median
groove
same
and
rounded
the
curved submedian
by
on
broadly
median
slightly
are
margin
lobes;
distinct
longi-
arched
margins. The
convergent
small, barely projecting
very
the
at
margins
equal-sized
are
gently
orbitofrontal
into
they
lobes,
extending grooves
the
almost
margins
arched
margin lobes; gently
transverse
ovate,
widest between the
long,
medially becoming compressed broadly
transversely
thickened
are
subdued before
of —
Description about
margins
propodi
at
about
Liessel, paratype
eight teeth, partially
glauconitic Brabant,
sand
proximally,
Boxtel.
Natural
cov-
Colsize.
5
follows the
midlength, the
gin,
median
one
articulation facet
The
dactylus claw
crushing
but flattens
a
has
the upper
face,
which
pits
linear
distally
just
above
the
depression
follows
finer
a
pits
size
surface has
by
a
and
row
of
become
row
runs
It would
and
the
towards the
area
of
a row
of the
curvature
opposing
widely spaced margin
upper
on
the
opposing margin
94
length
Discussion
width
width/carapace the
dorsal lobes and
compare Cancer size
C.
different line towards
a
carapace: width
Holotype
—
150
width 32 mm,
115
length
43
Dactylus: length
12
height
mm,
78
height
mm,
C.
mm,
height
mm.
mm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our
3rd is
preceding
the
ratios,
thanks
warmest
his
Mr L. Stolzenbach and
to
go
and
O. Stolzenbach for their intensive
son
and for the donation of the
Liessel,
of the paratypes; information
the
on
Liessel
differs
parvidens
(Natural History Museum, London),
C.H.J.M.
Fransen
of
Museum,
(Nationaal Mr
and
Leiden)
Dr
Natuurhistorisch for
J.W.M. Jagt and
comparison)
the
(Rijksuniversiteit
1758.
pagurus Linne, in
Mr
to
S.F. Morris
Hinte
markedly
locality;
sup-
their
anterolateral
allows
with Cancer
favourably
and
Mr Th. Lammers for
to
ones.
arrangements
lobation of the
preservation
as
collecting
holotype
smaller
helpful criticism of the typescript; far
margins (as
having
with
common
measurable.
not
The carapace outline, the orbitofrontal
—
on
while
parvidens, in
mm, orbitofrontal
Propodus:
side and the 5th/6th and the
either
half the size of the
are
C.
characters
developed
Measurements
plying 7th/8th
opposing
pagurus.
two
than those
the
lining
Of the 8 flattened
randomly scattered. the
lining
that
appear
frontal
deshayesii,
at
teeth
teeth
-
teeth; small, regular-sized pits crowd
the
are
sur-
upper
widely spaced
more
On the inner surface
margin. pits
the
in
increase
the
to
five
about
-
margin.
the
proximally,
outer
bounded
depression
suddenly and
curved
fewer
some
belong
rounded
boldly
and
finger
to
appears
is
carpal
margin.
The flattened
distally.
which
lower
smoothly
a
margin
shallow median
fixed
the
the
to
mar-
upper
from the lower
curves
towards
lowermost lies close
of the
curvature
in
tance
the
of
preparation
one
Mr T.
to
van
for technical assis-
Utrecht)
of the
text-Figures.
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of the median frontal lobe with the well-develREFERENCES sulcus
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hepatic regions
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those
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margins regular
a
C.
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