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First Polychelidae (Crustacea, Palinura) from the Jurassic of Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2004

M.B. Aguirre-Urreta ,
L.A. Buatois ,
G.Ch.B. Chernoglasov  and
F.A. Medina
M.B. Aguirre-Urreta
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciencias Geológícas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina
L.A. Buatois
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geologia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Avenida Miguel Lillo 205, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina
G.Ch.B. Chernoglasov
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciencias Geológícas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina
F.A. Medina
Affiliation:
CIRGEO, Centro de Investigaciones en Recursos Geológicos, Ramírez de Velasco 847, Buenos Aires, 1414, Argentina
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Abstract

A new fossil genus of decapod Crustacea, belonging to the family Polychelidae is described from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The specimen was obtained from a block of reworked Jurassic tuffaceous black shale belonging to the Ameghino (= Nordenskjöld) Formation in the Lower Cretaceous Kotick Point Formation. This is the first report of fossil Polychelidae in the Southern Hemisphere.

Keywords

Antarcticheles gen. nov.James Ross Islandsystematicspalaeoecology
Type
Papers—Earth Sciences and Glaciology
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 157 - 162
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1990

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