New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts
A new species of glypheid lobster, Glyphea christeyi (Decapoda:
Palinura), from the Eocene (Bortonian) Waihao Greensand, South Canterbury,
New Zealand
RODNEY M. FELDMANN
Department of Geology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242, U.S.A.
PHILLIP A. MAXWELL
Bathgates Road
Waimate
South Canterbury, New Zealand
Abstract The presence of Glyphea christeyi n. sp. in
the Waihao Greensand, exposed along the Opihi River, South Canterbury, marks
the geologically youngest occurrence of the genus in New Zealand and, perhaps,
in the world. The only other Eocene report of Glyphea von Meyer is from
Antarctica, also a high latitude occurrence. This discovery reinforces our
contention that the sole extant member of the family, Neoglyphea
inopinata Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1975, was derived from a species
of Glyphea in the South Pacific region.
Keywords Crustacea; Decapoda; Palinura; Glypheidae; Eocene;
new species; New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 1999, Vol. 42: 75-78
0028-8306/4201-0075 $7.00/0 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 1999
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