New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts

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A new species of Paranephrops White, 1842: a fossil freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the Manuherikia Group (Miocene), Central Otago, New Zealand

RODNEY M. FELDMANN

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

MIKE POLE

Department of Plant Science
University of Tasmania
G.P.O. Box 252C
Hobart 7001, Australia

Abstract  Discovery of a single specimen of fossil freshwater crayfish from the Miocene Dunstan Formation in Central Otago, New Zealand, permits description of Paranephrops fordycei n. sp. The specimen, a nearly entire molted carapace and abdomen, represents the first occurrence of this genus, and the family Parastacidae, in the fossil record.

Keywords  Decapoda; Macrura; Parastacidae; Dunstan Formation; Manuherikia Group; Miocene; nonmarine; systematics

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