Original paper
New genus of Cyclida (Crustacea) from Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian, Viséan) of Russia and England and new species from Viséan of Russia
Mychko, Eduard V.; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Alekseev, Alexander S.
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 294 Heft 1 (2019), p. 81 - 90
30 references
published: Oct 25, 2019
manuscript accepted: Aug 8, 2019
manuscript received: Jul 22, 2019
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Abstract
Within the crustacean group Cyclida, Prolatcyclus gen. nov. includes two species, Prolatcyclus martinensis (Goldring, 1967) and P. kindzadza sp. nov., described from the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian, upper Viséan) of England and the Southern Urals of Russia, respectively. Members of the genus have a unique feature for cyclids – large hypertrophied second axial lobes. The species P. kindzadza is 2.5 times larger than P. martinensis. Both species are exclusively inhabitants of reef environments.
Keywords
Crustacea • Cyclidae • Lower Carboniferous • Mississippian • Viséan • Russia • England • Akkermanovka Quarry • Cliff Quarry