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GAULT LOBSTERS
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| Three Lobsters or Shrimps from the Gault Clay at Folkestone are displayed below. These have been all provisionally called "Hoploparia sp." but I have doubts about the second and third specimens. Any improvements on these determinations would be gratefully received. The second specimen shows unique colour banding on the tail segment. |
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? Genus HOPLOPARIA McCoy, 1849
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? Hoploparia sp.
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Specimen 1 - a unique, almost complete, carapace
and tail exposed on a block of Gault Clay.
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Specimen 2 - this section of tail shows very distinctive
colour banding
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Specimen 3 - a tail section of a lobster or prawn
collected in-situ from Bed VI (Euhoplites lautus Zone; Euhoplites
lautus/nitidus Sub-zone)
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| References: |
a. Brooks H.K. et. al. 1969 - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Part R ARTHROPODA 4 b. Woods H. 1925-1931 A Monograph of the Fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England. |