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Homarus morrisi
Temporal range: YpresianBartonian

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Homarus
Species:
H. morrisi
Binomial name
Homarus morrisi

Quayle, 1987

Homarus morrisi is a speciesoffossil lobster from the Eocene of southern England.

Taxonomy[edit]

Specimens of H. morrisi were described as early as 1849, but were assigned to Hoploparia gammaroides rather than Homarus by scientists that included Frederick M'Coy and Thomas Bell. In 1987, W. J. Quayle recognised that the material then ascribed to Hoploparia gammaroides represented two species, and described the new species Homarus morrisi for those that didn't match the description of Hoploparia gammaroides.[1] The specific epithet honours S. F. Morris of the Department of Palaeontology at the "British Museum (Natural History)" (now the Natural History Museum).[1]

The Barton BedsatNew Milton, Hampshire have yielded fossils of Homarus morrisi.

Stratigraphy[edit]

Homarus morrisi has been found at a range of sites across Southern England. It occurs in the Ypresian London ClayatBognor Regis, the Isle of Sheppey, London and sites across Essex,[2] the YpresianLutetian Bracklesham GroupatBracklesham Bay, Selsey and Whitecliff Bay (Isle of Wight), and in the Bartonian Barton BedsofChristchurch Bay, Hampshire.[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c W. J Quayle (1987). "English Eocene Crustacea (lobsters and stomatopod)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 30 (3): 581–612. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.
  • ^ Joe S. H. Collins & Jeff Saward (2006). "Three new genera and species of crabs from the Lower Eocene London Clay of Essex, England" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 33: 67–76.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homarus_morrisi&oldid=1054050944"

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