Goneplax? craverii Crema, 1895: 675

Pasini, Giovanni, Garassino, Alessandro & Sami, Marco, 2018, Decapod crustaceans from the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) nearby Faenza (Emilia-Romagna, N Italy), Natural History Sciences 5 (2), pp. 27-32 : 29-30

Goneplax? craverii Crema, 1895: 675 , fig. 16. Goneplax craverii – Glaessner 1929: 198. — Schweitzer et al. 2010: 135.

Retropluma craverii – Vía Boada 1969: 324, 326. — Vía Boada 1980: 2, 3, fig. 1. — Vía Boada 1982: 116, fig. 1. — Beschin et al. 1996: 95. — Larghi 2003: 58, 59. — Garassino & De Angeli 2004: 45. — Garassino et al. 2004: 255. — De Angeli & Garassino 2006: 52. — Schweitzer et al. 2010: 100. — De Angeli et al. 2011: 38-41, figs. 2-4. — Baldanza et al. 2013: 344, 345, fig. 10. — Pasini et al. 2014: 253, 254, fig. 8D. — Baldanza et al. 2017: 58, 59, Fig. 15A.

Material and measurements: Three specimens in dorsal view ( MSF 2208 – lcxp: 10 mm; wcxp: 14 mm; MSF 2211 – lcxp: 10 mm; wcxp: 15 mm; MSF 2216 – lcxp: 11 mm; wcxp: 15 mm) , one specimen in part and counterpart ( MSF 2233 a, b – lcxp: 12 mm; wcxp: 14 mm) from Podere Tombarona .

Discussion. De Angeli et al. (2011) revised Retropluma craverii based upon two specimens from the Pliocene of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna), pointing out some morphological characters not observable in the original description, such as the very elongate and narrow rostrum, the wide orbito-frontal margin distinctly sinuous, ending with a well-developed forward directed tooth, the dorsal surface of carapace, with three transverse ridges, and the very elongated, flattened legs. These characters are visible on the studied specimens that are assigned to R. craverii . This species was originally described by Crema (1895) from the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) of Bra (Piedmont). Garassino, Hyžný & Pasini in Baldanza et al. (2013) reported this species from the early Pleistocene (late Gelasian-early Calabrian) of Poggio i Sodi (Siena, Tuscany) and later Pasini et al. (2014) reported this species also from the early Pleistocene bathyal environment of Volterra (Pisa, Tuscany). Finally, De Angeli, Garassino & Pasini in Baldanza et al. (2017) reported this species also from the early Pleistocene of Poggi Gialli (Sinalunga, Tuscany). This is the second report of R. craverii from the Romagna Apennines.