HOPLOPARIA ALBERTAENSIS, A NEW SPECIES OF CLAWED LOBSTER (NEPHROPIDAE) FROM THE LATE CONIACIAN, SHALLOW-MARINE BAD HEART FORMATION OF NORTHWESTERN ALBERTA, CANADA

ABSTRACT—A new species of clawed lobster, Hoploparia albertaensis, is reported from the late Coniacian, shallow-marine Bad Heart Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada. Hoploparia is a well-known, clawed lobster genus with a record extending from Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) to Miocene. Fifty-one species of Hoploparia are known worldwide; 13 from the North American Western Interior Seaway. None of the 12 other Interior Seaway species, of any age, closely resembles the new species. The new species strongly resembles Hoploparia gabbi Pilsbry, 1901 from the upper Santonian–lower Campanian of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain