New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics abstracts
Palaega kakatahi n. sp.: the first record of a marine fossil
isopod from the Pliocene of New Zealand
Rodney M. Feldmann
Department of Geology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Seabourne Rust
Geology Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Abstract Discovery of a well-preserved fossil
isopod specimen
representing the last three pereonites plus the pleonites and
pleotelson permits description of Palaega kakatahi n. sp. from
the Tangahoe Formation (mid Pliocene), in the Wanganui Basin, New
Zealand. This represents the first confirmed representative of the
genus from the fossil record in the Southern Hemisphere.
Keywords Crustacea; Isopoda; Cirolanidae;
paleoecology; Palaega
kakatahi n. sp.; new taxonomic name; Pliocene; New Zealand
G06009; Online publication date 20 November 2006; Received 27 March
2006; accepted 14 September 2006
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2006, Vol. 49:
411–415
0028–8306/06/4904–0411 © The Royal Society of New Zealand
2006
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