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Contributions to Zoology, 72 (2-3) 105-109 (2003) SPB Academic Publishing bv, The Hague Cretaceous and Cenozoic decapod crustaceans of Jamaica ³ Stephen+K. Donovan¹Roger+W. Portell² & Joe+S.H. Collins 'Department ofPalaeontology, NationaalNatuurhistorisch Museum, Postbus 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The 2 Netherlands; Florida Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 117800, University of Florida, Gainesville, 3 Florida 32611-7800, USA; Department ofPalaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England, and 8, Shaw’s Cottages, Perry Rise, Forest Hill, London SE23 2QN, England Keywords:: Jamaica, Cretaceous, Cenozoic, Crustacea, Decapoda Abstract Morris (1993) and new, but as yet undescribed, collections mentioned below. In the last decade, a rebirth in interest of Jamaican fossil crustaceans has occurred. A of known material is summary provided together with some indications ofthe directions that Overview of material future studies should take. The range of depositional settings shown by the decapod-bearing units studied the authors Introduction by pre- cludes any suggestion of a recurrent mode of pres- ervation. carapaces are rare, except in The have renaissance in the Complete past ten years seen a the Lower Miocene Montpelier Formation, where study of the fossil shrimps and crabs of Jamaica. a diverse faunahas been collected within slide blocks Previously, the only publications on the island’s of scleractinian corals. derived from a trio Withers Although decapod crustaceans were a ofpapers by shallow-water setting, they are preserved in deep- (1922, 1924, 1927), which described taxa from the water chalks (Portell & Collins, in press), with a Upper Cretaceous and Eocene. After this flurry of depositional depth in excess of 200 m (Underwood activity in the 1920s, Jamaican fossil shrimps and & in Of interest here crabs Mitchell, press). particular were largely ignored until the late 1980s, when is the presence of the symbiotic genus Trapezia Ms Carla Gordon of the University of the West Latreille, a with Indies genus commensal pocilloporid (UW1) collected abundant fragmentary ma- scleractinians, a of corals no longer present terial from the Falmouth Formation (Late Pleis- group in theCaribbean (with the exception ofMadracis). tocene, last interglacial). This material formed a Other deposits include the Bowden shell bed (sub- significant part of the new collections reported on marine mass flow, laid down in 100-200 m water by in the first Jamaican Morris (1993) paper on Pickerill of Pliocene depth; et ah, 1998) Late age, crabs in 66 Since then the aided years. authors, by the raised reef of the Late Pleistocene Falmouth Mr H.L. Dixon (formerly UWI) and other collec- Formation (Larson, 1983), coeval shallow-water tors, have been describing the locally abundant siliciclastic lagoonal deposits of the Port Morant decapod in remains found Miocene and younger Formation (Mitchell et ah, 2001) and a land crab deposits of the island (Collins et ah, 1997, 2001; in fill of claw a fissure terra rosa (Donovan & Dixon, Collins & Donovan, 1998; Collins & Portell, 1998; Donovan 1998). & Dixon, 1998; Portell & Collins, in press). That the studies of Withers Our early gave an incor- current knowledge of Jamaican fossil shrimps rect of the true and taxo- and impression stratigraphic crabs is summarized in Table 1, to which should nomic of Jamaican crustaceans be added diversity decapod the indeterminate specimens listed in was determined by the research interests of the Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 06:17:11PM via free access 106 S.K. Donovan et al. — Cretaceous and Cenozoic decapods ofJamaica Table I. Fossil shrimps and crabs from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Jamaica; Morris (1993) listed localities and horizons that have yielded indeterminate crab specimens. Data from Morris (1993) unless stated otherwise. Higher classification follows Martin & Davis = = = in 1 = (2001). Key: + present; cf. confer; aff. affinity (see Bengtson, 1988, for a discussion of cf. and aff. open nomenclature); Upper Cretaceous (horizon unknown); 2 = ‘Veniella Shales’ (Campanian); 3 = Guinea Corn Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian); 4 = Chapciton Formation, Yellow Limestone Group (Early-Middle Eocene); 5 =WhiteLimestone Group formation unknown (Eocene- Oligocene); 6 = Montpelier Formation, White Limestone Group (Early Miocene) (Portell & Collins, in press); 7 = Bowden shell bed, Bowden Formation, Lower Coastal Group (Late Pliocene) (Collins & Portell, 1998); 8 = Old Pera beds, Manchioneal Formation, Upper Coastal Group (Early Pleistocene) (Collins et ah, 2001); 9 =Falmouth Formation, Upper Coastal Group (LatePleistocene); 10 = Port Morant Formation, Upper Coastal Group (Late Pleistocene) (Collins et ah, 1997; Collins & Donovan, 1998); 11 = fissure fill (Quaternary) (Donovan & Dixon, 1998). For a general discussion ofthe geology of Jamaica, see Robinson (1994). Taxon 11234567892 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1010 n11 Infraorder Thalassinidea Family Callianassidae 'Callianassa'‘Callianassa’ + + + + spp. + ‘‘ ‘Callianassa’Callianassa' gigantea Withers + ‘ ’ Callianassa subplana Withers + ‘ ‘Callianassa’Callianassa' trechmanni Withers + Neocallichirus peraensis Collins et al. + GlypturusGlyplurus acanthochirus Stimpson + FamilyFamily Ctenochelidae + Ctenocheles sp. Infraorder Anomura Family Porcellanidae PetrolisthesPelrolisthes sp. + Family Albuneidae Albunea sp. + Family Diogenidae Paguristes sp. + Petrochirus + sp. PetrochirusPelrochirus bahamensis (Herbst) cf. + Infraorder Brachyura Family Dromiidae Kromtitis + sp. nov. Family Dynomenidae + Dynomene sp. nov. Family Raninidae Cretacoranina trechmanni (Withers) + Raninoides louisianensis Rathbun + Family Calappidae cf-cf. Calappa gallus (Herbst) \\ Calappa springeri Rathbun aff. + Family Hepatidae Eriosachila bartholomaeensis(Rathbun) + + Hepatus sp. Collins al. Hepatus praecox Collins et + Family Necrocarcinidae Necrocarcinus + sp. Paranecrocarcinus?Paranecrocarcinusl + sp.sp. Family Leucosiidae leucosiid + leucosiid gen. et sp.sp. nov. aff. Persephona punctata punctata (Linne) aff. + Uhlias limbatus Stimpson cf. Family Mithracidae Mithraculus forceps A. Milne Edwards cf. MithraxMilhrax sp. + + Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 06:17:11PM via free access Contributions to Zoology, 72 (2-3) - 2003 107 Table 1. Continued, Taxon 1 2 3 44 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mithrax A + Mithrax sp. nov. Mithrax B + sp. nov. Mithrax caribbaeus Rathbun cf.cf. Mithrax hispidus (Herbs!)(Herbst) + + Mithrax spinosissimus Lamarck + +4- Mithrax verrucosus H. Milne EdwardsEdwards + Teleophrys sp. nov. Family Pisidae Chlorilia aff. sp. aff. Hyas sp. Rochinia aff. sp. Family TychidaeTychidae Pitho + sp. Pitho anisodonanisodon (von Martins) +4- Family Dairidae Daira + sp. nov. Family Parthenopidae Mesorhoea sexspinosa Stirapson aff. Platylambrus + sp. ,„ Family Cancridae Cancer aff. sp. Family Portunidae + Callinectes jamaicensis Withers Callinectes sapidus Rathbun aff. Callinectes toxodes Ordway cf. Euphylax fortispinosusfortispinosus Collins etet al.al. +4- aff. Ovalipes sp. + Portunus sp. portunid et +4- portunid gen, sp. nov. Family Carcineretidae Carcineretes woolacotti Withers + FamilyFamily Carpiliidae Carpilius corallinus Herbst +4- Family Goneplacidae Nanoplax xanthiformis (A. Milne Edwards) cf. Family Panopeidae 4- Eurypanopeus sp. + Eurypanopeus abbrevialusabbreviatus (Stimpson) + Eurypanopeus depressusdepressus (Smith)(Smith) cf. Hexapanopeus caribbaeus (Stimpson) cf.cf. A + Lophopanopeus sp. nov. +4- LophopanopeusLophopanopeus sp. nov. B aff. Micropanope nuttingi (Rathbun)(Rathbun) Micropanope polita Rathbun cf. Micropanope spinipes A. Milne Edwards cf. + aff. Micropanope sp. nov. + cf. Neopanope sp,sp. Panopeus herbstii H. Milne Edwards + +4- A. Milne Edwards +4- PanopeusPanopeus rugosus - aff.aff. Panopeus sp. nov. Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 06:17:11PM via free access 108 S.K. Donovan et al. - Cretaceous and Cenozoic decapods ofJamaica Table I. Continued. TaxonTaxon 1 234567892 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II11 Family Pilumnidae Pilumnus Rathbun aff. pannosus Pilumnus sayi Rathbun cf. Pilumnus spinossimus Rathbun aff. Family Trapeziidae TrapeziaTrapezia sp. nov. + Family Xanthidae xanthid + gen. et sp. nov. Chlorodiella + Chlorodiella sp. nov. Eriphia sp. + Collins & D’n + Eriphia gonagragonagra xaymacaensis “ ” cf.cf. “EurypodaEurypoda sp. Eurytium limosum (Say) + aff. LeptodiusLeplodius sp, nov.nov. cf. Phymodius maculatus (Stimpson)(Stimpson) + Xanthilites?Xanthilitesl rathbunaerathhunae Withers Family Ocypodidae Uca + sp. Family Gecarcinidae Cardisoma guanhumiguanhumi Latreille + + Family Grapsidae Pachygrapsus sp. + Varuna?Parana! + sp. + collectors of these specimens, D. Woolacott and the agenda is the re-examination of the long-ne- C.T. Trechmann. It could be argued that the bias glected Cretaceous deposits that yielded the mate- of earlier studies towards the Upper Cretaceous and rial described by Withers. Eocene has now been overcompensated by our focus on the younger Cenozoic. However, the mid-Ceno- zoic White Limestone Group (Middle Eocene- Acknowledgements Middle Miocene), with its commonly mold-like preservation and low yield of fossils, has deterred SKD and RWP gratefully acknowledge the support ofNational Geographic Society grant # 7278-02. We thank our co- many macropalcontologists over the years. The > many workers who have helped us in collecting Jamaican fossil description of abundant carapace material from the decapods. Early Miocene Montpelier Formation (Portell & Collins, in press) must be regarded as a