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Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana

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Abstract

GAšPARIč, Rok; TSHUDY, Dale; CHAN, Tin-Yam  and  ĆORIć, Stjepan. A new deepwater lobster, Metanephrops serendipitus sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae), from lower Miocene of Meljski hrib (Maribor, Slovenia). Bol. Soc. Geol. Mex [online]. 2021, vol.73, n.3, 00007.  Epub Jan 31, 2022. ISSN 1405-3322.  https://doi.org/10.18268/bsgm2021v73n3a240521.

A new species of nephropid lobster, Metanephrops serendipitus sp. nov., is described from the lower Miocene (Ottnangian/Karpatian) in beds of Central Paratethys. Metanephrops serendipitus sp. nov. represents the first fossil representative of the genus from the northern hemisphere and thus extends its known palaeobiogeo-graphical distribution. Additionally, the palaeoecology of the new species is discussed. Similar to extant species of Metanephrops, the fossil nephropid inhabited a fine-grained deep-sea environment, associated with frequent brittle stars.

Keywords : Decapoda; Nephropidae; south-central Europe; Central Paratethys; palaeobiogeography.

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