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Three new tanaid species (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea) from the Lower Cretaceous Álava amber in northern Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Ronald Vonk  and
Frederick R. Schram
Ronald Vonk
Affiliation:
Zoological Museum Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 57, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Frederick R. Schram
Affiliation:
Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle,
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Marine crustaceans were not known as inclusions in amber from upper Aptian–middle Albian deposits in Northern Spain. The publication of a photograph of a purported fossil amphipod (Alonso et al., 2000) among many other arthropods promised to be of high interest because the fossil record of the amphipoda does not extend further than Upper Eocene (Schram, 1986; Coleman and Myers, 2000). The Museum of Natural Sciences of Álava in Vitoria-Gasteiz (AMNS), northern Spain, kindly sent us the material with the presumed amphipods, as our intention was to investigate its affinities to other fossil amphipods. The fossil crustaceans of this assemblage were found among 15 orders of insects, spiders, and mites—i.e., mainly terrestrial arthropods.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 6 , November 2007 , pp. 1502 - 1509
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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