Nymphaeops” belgicus Forir, 1887

Tshudy, Dale M., Hyžný, Matúš, Veselská, Martina Kočová & Jagt, John W. M., 2022, Taxonomic revision of the extinct clawed lobster genus Oncopareia Bosquet, 1854 (Decapoda, Astacidea, Nephropidae), Palaeontologia Electronica (a 20) 25 (2), pp. 1-31 : 24

“ Nymphaeops” belgicus Forir, 1887

Figure 12C

1887 Nymphaeops belgicus Forir , p. 157, pl. 7, fig. 1.

1929 Nymphaeops belgicus Forir ; Glaessner, p. 279.

2010 Oncopareia belgicus (Forir) ; Schweitzer et al., p. 31.

Material studied. None.

Remarks. Tshudy (1993, pp. 369-370) concluded that the cephalothorax illustrated in dorsal view in

Forir’s (1887) plate was probably not a nephropid.

Mertin (1941, p. 188) wrote that the specimen was too poorly preserved to permit any comparison to

Oncopareia .

Range and occurrence. Upper Cretaceous, ‘middle Senonian’, probably lower Maastrichtian, of the

Liège-Limburg Basin, northwest Belgium and the southeast Netherlands (Forir, 1887, p. 160).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Astacidean lobsters with uncertain affinities. A-B, “Hoploparia” macrodactyla Schlüter, in von der Marck and Schlüter, 1868; fragmentary cephalothorax with associated claws (from Schlüter, 1862, pl. 11, fig. 5). C, “Nymphaeops” belgicus Forir, 1887; cephalothorax in dorsal view (from Forir, 1887, pl. 7, fig. 1). D, “Nymphaeops” sendenhorstensis Schlüter, 1862; cephalothorax with pleon and chelipeds (from Schlüter, 1862, pl. 14, fig. 5).