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A new family, genus, and species of lobster (Decapoda: Achelata) from the Gadvan Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Rodney M. Feldmann ,
Ali Kolahdouz ,
Bijan Biranvand  and
Guenter Schweigert
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA,
Ali Kolahdouz
Affiliation:
Department of Petroleum Geology, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Pazhuheshgah Blvd, Qom Road, Shahre-Rey, Tehran, Iran
Bijan Biranvand
Affiliation:
Department of Petroleum Geology, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Pazhuheshgah Blvd, Qom Road, Shahre-Rey, Tehran, Iran
Guenter Schweigert
Affiliation:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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Records of fossil decapod crustaceans from Iran are scarce. Förster and Seyed-Emami (1982) reported Eryma bedelta (Quenstedt, 1857) from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) in northern Iran. Garassino and Krobicki (2002, p. 56) noted the presence of the lobster Eryma von Meyer, 1840, from Iran. Garassino (personal commun., 2005) confirmed that this referred to the work of Förster and Seyed-Emami and noted that this was the only decapod occurrence in the country known to him. Toraby and Yazdi (2002) reported a portunid from the Miocene of the country in an abstract but we are unaware of a subsequent publication. Microcoprolites with an internal structure characteristic of decapods are known from the Jurassic of Iran (Brönnimann, 1977). Thus, the discovery of the remains of a remarkable macrurous decapod, recovered from a well core sampling the Gadvan Formation, is noteworthy. This unique specimen is the basis for description of a new family, genus, and species of palinuroid lobster.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , March 2007 , pp. 405 - 407
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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