A NEW SPECIES OF PROTAMPHISOPUS NICHOLLS (CRUSTACEA, ISOPODA, PHREATOICIDEA) FROM MIDDLE TRIASSIC LUOPING FAUNA OF YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA

作者：Fu Wan Lu^*; Wilson George D F; Jiang Da Yong; Sun Yuan Lin; Hao Wei Cheng; Sun Zuo Yu

来源：Journal of Paleontology, 2010, 84(5): 1003-1013.

DOI：10.1666/10-042.1

Fossil isopod crustaceans in the suborder Phreatoicidea have a known stratigraphic range from the Carboniferous to the Jurassic. Until now, all Mesozoic records of this group were thought to occur in fresh water habitats. A new phreatoicidean isopod fossil of the Triassic Luoping marine fauna, Yunnan Province, China, is described. The new species, based on several exceptionally complete specimens, is assigned to the genus Protamphisopus Nicholls and the family Amphisopidae Nicholls. This Chinese record is the first report of a Mesozoic-age phreatoicidean isopod outside of Gondwanan terranes, requiring a revision of known biogeographic patterns of the Phreatoicidea. Whether this record is from a marine habitat or is the result of a secondary deposition is not certain. Sottyella Racheboef, Schram and Vidal from the Carboniferous (Stephanian) Lagerstatte of Montceaules-Mines that was assigned to this suborder may be a decapod. Therefore, it has no relationship to this new species.

• 出版日期2010-9
• 单位中国地质博物馆; 北京大学