Cretaceous Lobster - Texas - Pawpaw Shale ID please

[LanceH]

What species is this lobster?

  

[JohnJ]

@MB 

 

Saw you mention this elsewhere online, Lance.  It's a really nice find.   

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

That's pretty awesome! May be @caterpillar would have an idea what it is, though?

[Ludwigia]

Sorry I can't help with id, but it sure is a nice find! Have you asked Rodney Feldmann?

[caterpillar]

Take a look at Linuparus

[LanceH]

9 hours ago, caterpillar said:

Take a look at Linuparus

That was my assumption.  I guess it's lacking the section with the strong ridge down the middle.

[LanceH]

I also found this bit on the same exposure. 

[caterpillar]

Nice preservation

[MB]

On 9/22/2021 at 5:56 AM, JohnJ said:

@MB 

 

Saw you mention this elsewhere online, Lance.  It's a really nice find.   

Nice Linuparus, let me see, some species from TX were described few years ago

 

[sharko69]

Awesome find! Congratulations.

[MB]

On 9/22/2021 at 5:56 AM, JohnJ said:

@MB 

 

Saw you mention this elsewhere online, Lance.  It's a really nice find.   

Hi guys,

Just checking the Frantescu (2013) paper and working the picture with Photoshop, I would say that it looks like  Linuparus tarrantensis Davidson, 1963.

[MB]

Paper is Cretaceous lobsters from the Pawpaw Shale of northeast Texas. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 268/3, 341–359 Article Stuttgart, June 2013

[LanceH]

On 9/26/2021 at 11:16 AM, MB said:

Hi guys,

Just checking the Frantescu (2013) paper and working the picture with Photoshop, I would say that it looks like  Linuparus tarrantensis Davidson, 1963.

Oh wow, thanks for taking the time to do all that. It definitely looks identical in your graphic.  I have almost all the relevant scientific papers for Texas fossils but just didn't want to dig them out.  I've taken a break from full time fossil hunting the past few years I've been doing more genealogy which is why I disappeared from the forum.  

Edited October 3, 2021 by LanceH