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Additions to the fossil decapod crustacean fauna of New Zealand

RODNEY M. FELDMANN

Department of Geology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242, U.S.A.

Abstract Five new species of decapod crustaceans are described from New Zealand: Glyphea stilwelli, from the Paleocene of Otago, Homolodromia novaezelandica and Torynomma planata, from the Late Cretaceous near Hawke's Bay, Calappilia maxwelli, from the Miocene of Kaipara Harbour, and Actinotocarcinus maclauchlani, from the Miocene of Motunau Beach. The sternum of Hemioon novozelandicus Glaessner and the ventral surface of a male specimen of Miograpsus papaka Fleming are illustrated for the first time. Torynomma flemingi Glaessner is noted from a new locality in Northland. The occurrence of Glyphea stilwelli represents the first record of a Paleocene decapod in New Zealand and the first record of that genus in the Paleocene.

Keywords Decapoda; Macrura; Brachyura; Glypheidae; Homolodromiidae; Raninidae; Torynommidae; Calappidae; Majidae; Grapsidae; Cretaceous; Paleocene; Miocene; New Zealand; systematic paleontology

Received 18 September 1992; published 25 June 1993
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 1991, Vol. 36: 201—211
0028Ð8306/06/3602—0201 ©The Royal Society of New Zealand 1991

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