FIRST PLIOCENE DECAPOD CRUSTACEAN (MALACOSTRACA, PALINURIDAE) FROM THE ANTARCTIC

Authors
FELDMANN RM QUILTY PG
Citation
Rm. Feldmann et Pg. Quilty, FIRST PLIOCENE DECAPOD CRUSTACEAN (MALACOSTRACA, PALINURIDAE) FROM THE ANTARCTIC, Antarctic science, 9(1), 1997, pp. 56-60
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences","Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Antarctic science → ACNP
ISSN journal
09541020
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
56 - 60
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-1020(1997)9:1<56:FPDC(P>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A single specimen of palinurid lobster, possibly Linuparus, from Plioc ene rocks on Marine Plain, Princess Elizabeth Land, documents the only post-Miocene occurrence of decapod crustaceans in the Antarctic. The badly crushed, partial remains, probably an exuvia, are encrusted with the serpulid worm, Spirorbis Daudin.