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  • Atherfieldastacus magnus (M'Coy, 1849)


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    Taxonomy

    Lobster

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
    Class: Malacostraca Latreille 1802
    Order: Decapoda Latreille 1802
    Family: Mecochiridae Van Straelen 1925
    Genus: Atherfieldastacus
    Species: Atherfieldastacus magnus
    Author Citation M'Coy 1849

    Geological Time Scale

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

    Stratigraphy

    Lower Greensand Group
    Atherfield Clay Formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: 9 cm

    Location

    Atherfield
    Hampshire
    United Kingdom

    Comments

    Alternative name: Meyeria magna M'Coy, 1849.

    References:
    Oscar González-León, Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar and Francisco J. Vega (2014). Morphology and ontogeny of the fossil lobster Meyeria magna M'COY, 1849 (Astacidae, Mecochiridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Aptian) of Mexico, United Kingdom and Spain. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 271(1):49-68

    DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0376.
    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.




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