Original paper
The first fossil bresiliid shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Upper Jurassic, Southern Germany)
Winkler, Norbert; Schweigert, Günter; Winkler, Annette; Härer, Jürgen
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 311 Heft 3 (2024), p. 281 - 297
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published: Jul 18, 2024
manuscript accepted: Mar 28, 2024
manuscript received: Feb 28, 2024
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Abstract
A new genus and species of bresiliid shrimps, Palaeobresilia n. gen., with its type species Palaeobresilia kurthetriegeri n. gen., n. sp., is described from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen-type limestones of Schamhaupten and Langenaltheim (Painten and Altmühltal formations; Lower Tithonian, Hybonotum Zone). The new taxon is the first fossil representative of the extant caridean superfamily Bresilioidea. As deduced from palaeoenvironmental observations and modern analogues, it is possible that submarine caves in sponge-microbial reefs had been the preferred habitat of the fossil bresiliid.
Keywords
Bresilioidea • Painten Formation • Altmühltal Formation • Solnhofen Fossillagerstätten • palaeoecology • Tithonian