A new Eocene crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Seymour Island, Antarctica
Seymour Island, Antarctica. The fossils were obtained from the Allomember Submeseta of Late Eocene age. As other representatives of the genus Tumidocarcinus were only known from New Zealand and Australia, this finding provides new insights on the palaeobiogeography of high latitude faunas during the...
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1995
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Online Access: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09541020_v7_n3_p277_AguirreUrreta https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_09541020_v7_n3_p277_AguirreUrreta |
Summary: | Seymour Island, Antarctica. The fossils were obtained from the Allomember Submeseta of Late Eocene age. As other representatives of the genus Tumidocarcinus were only known from New Zealand and Australia, this finding provides new insights on the palaeobiogeography of high latitude faunas during the Early Tertiary. A new xanthid crab. Tumidocarcinus foersteri n. sp. is described from the La Meseta Formation on. © 1995, Antarctic Science Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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