ERYMIDAE Van Straelen, 1925

Odin, Giliane P., Charbonnier, Sylvain, Devillez, Julien & Schweigert, Günter, 2019, On unreported historical specimens of marine arthropods from the Solnhofen and Nusplingen Lithographic Limestones (Late Jurassic, Germany) housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Geodiversitas 41 (17), pp. 643-662 : 652

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a17
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:541CF827-F02E-4086-8FB0-2C0033DD429A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3703582
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scientific name	ERYMIDAE Van Straelen, 1925
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Family ERYMIDAE Van Straelen, 1925

PRELIMINARY REMARKS

Eryma modestiforme ( Schlotheim, 1822) ( Fig. 6 View FIG ), Palaeastacus fuciformis ( Schlotheim, 1822) ( Fig. 7 View FIG ) and Pustulina minuta ( Schlotheim, 1822) ( Fig. 7 View FIG ) are the three most common erymids found in the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones. Numerous specimens are almost complete, but the compression often impedes the identification of the carapace grooves, which are important for the systematic of the Erymidae . Instead, we use the general ornamentation and the features of the P1 chelae (shape and ornamentation) to distinguish the erymid lobsters. Indeed, P. fuciformis and P. minuta have P1 chelae with a subrectangular propodus bearing short and wide fingers, while the fingers of E. modestiforme are longer than the propodus and are progressively narrowing to their distal extremity. Moreover, E. modestiforme is ornamented by small tubercles and depressions, while P. minuta is covered by coarse rounded tubercles and P. fuciformis bears strong spines on its carapace and its P1 propodus.