New data on Paleogene decapod crustaceans from Pakistan

Abstract

One hermit crab and two brachyuran crabs from the Eocene of Pakistan are described. The hermit crab, recovered from the middle Eocene of the Drazinda Formation in the Sulaiman Range (northern Pakistan), represents a new species of diogenid (Diogenidae): ?Diogenes jafrii. The two brachyuran crabs, recovered from two different localities of the Kirthar Range (southern Pakistan), have been identified as a portunid (Portunidae) and a possibly dromioid (Dromioidea), respectively, since the fragmentary condition does not allow a more specific systematic assignment. In addition, a specimen from the late Paleocene of the southern Kirthar Range, figured by Charbonnier et al. (2013), is re-examined herein.