SHEPPEY LONDON CLAY CRUSTACEA (LOBSTERS AND STOMOTOPOD)

Jim Craig - Summary - November 1998

Infraorder

Family

Subfamily

Genus

Species

Comments / Synonyms

Sh'py

ASTACIDAE Latreille, 1803

NEPHROPIDAE Dana, 1852

HOMARINAE Huxley, 1879

HOMARUS Weber, 1795

Homarus morrisi

Quayle 1987

London Clay, Soft Rock, Bognor Regis

no

ASTACIDAE Latreille, 1803

NEPHROPIDAE Dana, 1852

HOMARINAE Huxley, 1879

HOPLOPARIA M'Coy, 1849

Hoploparia gammaroides

M'Coy, 1849

Hoploparia belli M'Coy; Bell, p. 38

Note (1)

yes

ASTACIDAE Latreille, 1803

NEPHROPIDAE Dana, 1852

HOMARINAE Huxley, 1879

HOPLOPARIA M'Coy, 1849

Hoploparia wardi

Quayle 1987

Forbes Young Collection, London Clay, Isle of Sheppey

yes

ASTACIDAE Latreille, 1803

NEPHROPIDAE Dana, 1852

HOMARINAE Huxley, 1879

HOPLOPARIA M'Coy, 1849

Hoploparia victoriae

Quayle 1987

Elmore Formation, Bracklesham Group, Middle Eocene, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire

no

PALINURA Latreille, 1803

GLYPHEOIDEA WINCKLER, 1883

GLYPHEIDAE Winckler, 1883

GLYPHEA von Meyer, 1835

Glyphea scabra

(Bell, 1858)

Trachysoma scabrum Bell;

?

PALINURA Latreille, 1803

PALINUROIDEA Latreille, 1803

PALINURIDAE Latreille, 1802

ARCHAEOCARABUS M'Coy

Archaeocarabus bowerbanki M'Coy, 1849

-

Yes

PALINURA Latreille, 1803

PALINUROIDEA Latreille, 1803

PALINURIDAE Latreille, 1802

LINUPARUS White, 1847

Linuparus eocenicus

Woods, 1925

Thenops scyllariformis Bell, p. 33 pl 7 Linuparus scyllariformis (Bell);

Yes

PALINURA Latreille, 1803

PALINUROIDEA Latreille, 1803

PALINURIDAE Latreille, 1802

LINUPARUS White, 1847

Linuparus scyllariformis

(Bell, 1858)

Thenops scyllariformis Bell 1858 , p. 33 pl 7 Linuparus scyllariformis (Bell)

?

PALINURA Latreille, 1803

SCYLLARIDAE Latreille, 1825

-

SCYLLARIDES GILL, 1898

Scyllarides tuberculatus

(König, 1825)

Scyllaridia koenigii Bell, 1858

Scyllarides koenigi (Bell, 1858)

yes

             

Order

Family

 

Genus

     

STOMOTOPODA Latreille, 1817

SQUILLIDAE Latreille, 1803

 

BATHYSQUILLA Manning, 1963

Bathysquilla wetherelli

(Woodward, 1879)

Squilla wetherelli Woodward, 1879

Yes

             

Reference:             Quayle, W.J. 1987:  English Eocene Crustaceae (Lobsters and Stomatopod) Palaeontology, Vol. 30, Part 3, 1987, pp. 581-612, pls. 64-67

                                Woods, H. 1925 - 1931: A Monograph of the Fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England. Palaeontolgraphical Society

Note 1:  H. belli is a juvenile specimen of H. gammaroides:  Woods p 93;  Quayle p (look up)