New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts

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Paralomis debodeorum, a new species of decapod crustacean from the Miocene of New Zealand: first notice of the Lithodidae in the fossil record

RODNEY M. FELDMANN

Department of Geology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242, U.S.A.

Abstract  Description of a new species of lithodid decapod crustacean Paralomis debodeorum, from middle-late Miocene rocks of Motunau Beach, North Canterbury, New Zealand, constitutes the first record of king crabs from the fossil record. The species most closely resembles the extant P. zealandica Dawson & Yaldwyn.

Keywords  Crustacea; Decapoda; Anomura; Lithodidae; Miocene; new species; New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1998, Vol. 41: 35-38

0028-8306/98/4101-0035 $7.00/0 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 1998

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