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The Crustacea of the Insect Bed (latest Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, England, including the first spinicaudatan (clam shrimp) from the British Cenozoic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2019

Oscar F. GALLEGO ,
Shen YAN-BIN ,
Ed JARZEMBOWSKI ,
Ian J. SLIPPER ,
Angela SELF  and
Mateo D. MONFERRAN
Oscar F. GALLEGO*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología-Área Ciencias de la Tierra-Geología Histórica-Micropaleontología (FACENA-UNNE) y Área Paleontología, (CECOAL-CONICET-UNNE), Casilla de Correo 128, 3400 Corrientes, Argentina. Email: ofgallego@live.com.ar and monfdm@gmail.com
Shen YAN-BIN
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
Ed JARZEMBOWSKI
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Ian J. SLIPPER
Affiliation:
Deceased, formerly Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham ME4 4TB, UK.
Angela SELF
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Mateo D. MONFERRAN
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología-Área Ciencias de la Tierra-Geología Histórica-Micropaleontología (FACENA-UNNE) y Área Paleontología, (CECOAL-CONICET-UNNE), Casilla de Correo 128, 3400 Corrientes, Argentina. Email: ofgallego@live.com.ar and monfdm@gmail.com
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*Corresponding author
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Abstract

The crustacean fauna of the Insect Bed (late Eocene), Isle of Wight is reviewed. The fauna comprises the branchiopod Branchipodites vectensis Woodward, 1879, ostracod Potamocypris brodiei Jones and Sherborn, 1889, and isopod Eosphaeroma margarum (Desmarest, 1822). In addition a new clam shrimp (Crustacea: Diplostraca: Spinicaudata) is described and named Paraleptestheria mitchelli sp. nov. This is the first record of the genus outside China and the first ‘conchostracan' to be described from the European Cenozoic.

Keywords

AnostracaArthropodaCenozoic palaeoenvironment‘Conchostraca'Eocene-OligoceneIsopodaUnited Kingdom

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