Description and ontogeny of a 40-million-year-old parasitic isopodan crustacean: Parvucymoides dvorakorum gen. et sp. nov.

A collection of exceptionally well-preserved fossil specimens of crustaceans, clearly representatives of Isopoda, is presented here. Excavated from the late Eocene (approximately 40 million years ago) freshwater sediments of the Trupelník hill field site near Kučlín, Czech Republic, these specimens...

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Main Authors: Serita Van der Wal, Mario Schädel, Boris Ekrt, Joachim T. Haug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2021-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/12317.pdf