Palinurina longipes Münster, 1839

Charbonnier, Sylvain & Garassino, Alessandro, 2012, The marine arthropods from the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Late Jurassic, Germany) in the collections of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Geodiversitas 34 (4), pp. 857-871 : 866

Palinurina longipes Münster, 1839 ( Fig. 4D )

STUDIED MATERIAL. — 5 specimens from Solnhofen ( MNHN.F. A30691 , A30773, A33510 , A33511 , A33512 ) ; 3 specimens from Eichstätt ( MNHN.F.B13455, B13458, B13460). Collections A. Milne Edwards, Hoffstetter .

COMMENTS

Two species of Palinurina are known at present in the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones, P.longipes and P. tenera Oppel, 1862 . The studied specimens have been assigned to the type species for the strongly tuberculate pereiopods and carapace (smooth pereiopods in P. tenera in which the carapace is not preserved).

Figures

FIG. 4. — Mecochiridae and Palinuridae from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Bavaria,Germany): A, Mecochirus longimanatus (von Schlotheim,1820),left lateral view (MNHN.F.B13454, Eichstätt);B, M.longimanatus, probable exuvia,right lateral view (MNHN.F.A42005, unknown locality); C, M. longimanatus, probable exuvia, right lateral view (MNHN.F.B13456, Solnhofen); D, Palinurina longipes Münster, 1839, ventral view (MNHN.F.B13455, Eichstätt). Scale bars: 2 cm. Photographs by C. Lemzaouda (MNHN).