Homarus hakelensis

Homarus hakelensis is a species of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephropidae.

Homarus hakelensis
Temporal range: Cenomanian
Homarus hakelensis. Cretaceous of Lebanon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Homarus
Species:
H. hakelensis
Binomial name
Homarus hakelensis
(Fraas, 1878)

Fossil record

Fossils of Homarus hakelensis

These lobsters are related to the modern-day lobsters. They lived in warm, shallow seas during the Cenomanian period (93.9–100.5 m.y.a.). Fossils have been found at fossil sites in Hjoula and Mayfouq Lebanon.[1][2]

Description

Homarus hakelensis could reach a length of about 95 millimetres (3.7 in), with 85 millimetres (3.3 in) antennae. [3]



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References

  1. Paleobiology Database
  2. Liliana Póvoas, Pedro Dantas "Homarus hakelensis Fraas 1878 and clupeomorph fishes" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2017.
  3. A. Garassono The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie - Vol. Ill - Pl. X
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