This is the first report of Jurassic brachyurans and anomurans from the territory of Russia. These findings come from the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) reef limestones of the North Caucasus. The anomuran Gastrosacus wetzleri von Meyer, 1851 was collected from the locality near the Urup River and is the first find of this species outside of western Europe. The dromiacean crab, Goniodromites aliquantulus Schweitzer, Feldmann, and Lazăr, 2007, was discovered from another locality near the Kamennomostsky village. This species was first described from the Oxfordian of Romania. Findings of fossil remains of Goniodromites aliquantulus and Gastrosacus wetzleri from the Oxfordian of the North Caucasus indicate an interconnected paleobiogeographical community of decapod faunas in the Late Jurassic in the Tethys basins.

We describe the findings of cyclidans from the unpublished collection of the famous paleontologist B.I. Chernyshev (1888–1950) in the storage of the Academician F.N. Chernyshev Central Scientific Research Geological Survey Museum (CNIGR museum, St. Petersburg, Russia). These cyclidans were discovered by various researchers in the Carboniferous and Permian of the Urals. They are represented by the following taxa: Oonocarcinus uralicus new species, Uralocyclus feldmanni new species, Ambocyclus capidulum (Chernyshev, 1933), and Magnitocyclus (?) sp. indet. The discovery of the new species Oonocarcinus uralicus n. sp. greatly expands the geographic and stratigraphic interval of the genus Oonocarcinus Gemmellaro, 1890, previously known from the Middle Permian and Triassic. The discovery of Uralocyclus feldmanni n. sp. in the Mississippian deposits of the Chelyabinsk Oblast indicates a wide distribution of the genus Uralocyclus Mychko and Alekseev, 2018 in the Early Carboniferous, because Carboniferous representatives of this genus were previously known only from Ireland and England. The paper provides an up-to-date list of all known cyclidan occurrences and taxa in Russia.

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