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A new Eocene crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Seymour Island, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2004

María B. Aguirre-Urreta ,
Sergio Marenssi  and
Sergio Santillana
María B. Aguirre-Urreta
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires (1428), Argentina
Sergio Marenssi
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires (1428), Argentina Instituto Antártico Argentino, Cerrito 1428, Buenos Aires (1010), Argentina
Sergio Santillana
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires (1428), Argentina Instituto Antártico Argentino, Cerrito 1428, Buenos Aires (1010), Argentina
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Abstract

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A new xanthid crab, Tumidocarcinus foersteri n. sp. is described from the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica. The fossils were obtained from the Allomember Submeseta of Late Eocene age. As other representatives of the genus Tumidocarcinus were only known from New Zealand and Australia, this finding provides new insights on the palaeobiogeography of high latitude faunas during the Early Tertiary.

Keywords

AntarcticaEoceneDecapodaXanthidaesystematicspalaeobiogeography
Type
Papers—Earth Sciences and Glaciology
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 277 - 281
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1995