Atherfieldastacus rapax (HARBORT, 1905)

By oilshale (edited)

• September 6, 2018

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Malacostraca Latreille 1802
Order: Decapoda Latreille 1802
Family: Mecochiridae Van Straelen 1925
Genus: Atherfieldastacus
Species: Atherfieldastacus rapax
Author Citation (HARBORT, 1905)

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Valanginian

Stratigraphy

Bückeberg Group
Isterberg Formation
Osterwald Member

Provenance

Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 07/01/1970
Acquired by: Field Collection

Dimensions

Length: 16 cm

Location

Brickworks Quarry in Sachsenhagen
District of Schaumburg
Lower Saxony
Germany

• atherfieldastacus
• cretaceous
• lower saxony
• mecochirus
• meyeria
• sachsenhagen

Comments

Alternative name: Meyeria rapax Harbort 1905.
References:

T. Astrop (2011). PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF MECOCHIRIDAE (DECAPODA: REPTANTIA: GLYPHEOIDEA): AN INTEGRATED MORPHOMETRIC AND CLADISTIC APPROACH. JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY, 31(1): 114-125.

R. M. D. Feldmann, F. J. Vega, P. Garcia-Barrera, R. Rico-Montiel, and L. M. Lopez (1995). A new species of Meyeria (Decapoda: Mecochiridae) from San Juan Raya Formation (Aptian: Cretaceous), Puebla State, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 69(2):402-406.
Oscar González-León, Àlex Ossó, Telm Bover-Arnal, Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar, Gianluca Frijia, Francisco J. Vega (2017). Atherfieldastacus rapax (Harbort, 1905) (Glypheidae, Mecochiridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Maestrat Basin (NE Spain), Cretaceous Research, Volume 77, Pages 56-68. ISSN 0195-6671, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.012.