| Title | Report of new lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Haida Gwaii archipelago, Canada |
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| Author | Garassino, A; Pasini, G; Nyborg, T; Haggart, J W |
| Source | Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen vol. 301, no. 2, 2021 p. 201-216, https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2021/1009 |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20210447 |
| Publisher | Schweizerbart Science Publishers (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; digital; on-line |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 103B/13; 103F/01; 103G/04 |
| Area | Haida Gwaii; Skidegate Inlet; Bearskin Bay; Maple Island; Robber Island; Cumshewa Inlet; McLellan Island |
| Lat/Long WENS | -132.5000 -131.5000 53.2500 52.7500 |
| Subjects | paleontology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Lower Cretaceous; Albian; systematic paleontology; paleogeography; fossil distribution, geographic; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary
rocks; sandstones; siltstones; fossil descriptions; Crustacea; Decapoda; Lobsters; Palaeastacus haidaensis Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp. (Eryminae Van Straelen, 1925); Stenodactylina sp.; Homarus fami Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp.
(Nephropidae Dana, 1852); Mecochirus tuberculatus Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp.; Queen Charlotte Group; Haida Formation; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | location maps; stratigraphic columns; photographs; paleontological drawings |
| Program | GSC Pacific Division |
| Released | 2021 08 31 |
| Abstract | New lobsters are reported from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Haida Gwaii Archipelago (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada. The Erymidae Van Straelen, 1925 includes
Palaeastacus haidaensis Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp. (Eryminae Van Straelen, 1925) that formally represents the first report of this genus in North America. Moreover, one loose chela has been assigned to Stenodactylina sp., representing the
oldest report of this genus in Canada. In addition, we report Homarus fami Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp. (Nephropidae Dana, 1852) which represents the first confirmed record of the genus from the Lower Cretaceous of North America, enlarging the
palaeogeographic distribution of the genus out of Europe. Finally, the Mecochiridae Van Straelen, 1925 includes Mecochirus tuberculatus Garassino, Pasini & Nyborg n. sp. that represents the first report of this genus in North America. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
In this paper, to be published in a scientific journal, the authors have described new species of fossil lobsters which lived in the ocean of present-day
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, approximately 105 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period of geological time. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 329297 |
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