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Palaega kakatahi n. sp.: the first record of a marine fossil isopod from the Pliocene of New Zealand

Rodney M. Feldmann

Department of Geology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

Seabourne Rust

Geology Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Abstract   Discovery of a well-preserved fossil isopod specimen representing the last three pereonites plus the pleonites and pleotelson permits description of Palaega kakatahi n. sp. from the Tangahoe Formation (mid Pliocene), in the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. This represents the first confirmed representative of the genus from the fossil record in the Southern Hemisphere.

Keywords   Crustacea; Isopoda; Cirolanidae; paleoecology; Palaega kakatahi n. sp.; new taxonomic name; Pliocene; New Zealand

 
G06009; Online publication date 20 November 2006; Received 27 March 2006; accepted 14 September 2006

New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2006, Vol. 49: 411–415
0028–8306/06/4904–0411    © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2006

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