First polychelidae (crustacea, palinura) from the jurassic of antarctica
A new fossil genus of decapod Crustacea, belonging to the family Polychelidae is described from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The specimen was obtained from a block of reworked Jurassic tuffaceous black shale belonging to the Ameghino (= Nordenskjöld) Formation in the Lower Cretaceous Koti...
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1986
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09541020_v2_n2_p157_Aguirre–Urreta http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_09541020_v2_n2_p157_Aguirre–Urreta |
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| Sumario: | A new fossil genus of decapod Crustacea, belonging to the family Polychelidae is described from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The specimen was obtained from a block of reworked Jurassic tuffaceous black shale belonging to the Ameghino (= Nordenskjöld) Formation in the Lower Cretaceous Kotick Point Formation. This is the first report of fossil Polychelidae in the Southern Hemisphere. © 1990, Antarctic Science Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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