A recent field trip to Sicily and an examination of decapod crustacean collections at the Museo Geologico G.G. Gemmellaro in the centre of Palermo, Sicily (Italy), has demonstrated that most of the anomuran and brachyuran material described by Gemmellaro (Gemmellaro GG. 1869. Studi paleontologici sulla fauna del Calcare à Terebratula janitor del nord di Sicilia. Palermo: Lao, vol. 1, pp. 11–18) from the Tithonian of that island is still present. Interestingly, a single specimen in this lot was never mentioned, described or illustrated by that author. The species to which this particular individual is here shown to belong, Gastrosacus tuberosus, was first described and named 26 years later, in 1895, by Remeš. The holotype of G. tuberosus (Remeš M. 1895. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Crustaceen der Stramberger Schichten. Bulletin international de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Empereur François Joseph I, Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelle 2: 200–201) has recently been rediscovered; this shows that both Galathea eminens Blaschke (Blaschke F. 1911. Zur Tithonfauna von Stramberg in Mähren. Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 25: 143–221) and Galatheites tuberosiformus Lőrenthey, in Lőrenthey and Beurlen (Lőrenthey E, Beurlen K. 1929. Die fossilen Dekapoden der Länder der Ungarischen Krone. Geologica Hungarica 3: 1–420) are junior synonyms. The Sicilian record constitutes the southernmost mention of G. tuberosus to date.
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October 03, 2017
The Gemmellaro Collection: first record of an anomuran from the Tithonian of Sicily, Italy
René H.B. Fraaije;
René H.B. Fraaije
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Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort
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Carolina D'Arpa;
Carolina D'Arpa
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Museo Geologico G.G. Gemmellaro, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare
, Corso Tukory 131, 90100Palermo, Italy
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Barry W.M. van Bakel;
Barry W.M. van Bakel
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Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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John W.M. Jagt;
John W.M. Jagt
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Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
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Giuseppe Zarcone
Giuseppe Zarcone
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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM)
, Via Archirafi 22, 90123Palermo, Italy
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René H.B. Fraaije
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1
Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort
, Bosscheweg 80, 5283WB Boxtel, The Netherlands
Carolina D'Arpa
2
Museo Geologico G.G. Gemmellaro, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare
, Corso Tukory 131, 90100Palermo, Italy
Barry W.M. van Bakel
1
Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort
, Bosscheweg 80, 5283WB Boxtel, The Netherlands
3
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
, P.O. Box 9517, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands
John W.M. Jagt
4
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
, de Bosquetplein 6-7, 6211KJ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Zarcone
5
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM)
, Via Archirafi 22, 90123Palermo, Italy
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Publisher: Société Géologique de France
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16 Apr 2018
Online ISSN: 1777-5817
Print ISSN: 0037-9409
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Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France (2017) 188 (3): 18.
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René H.B. Fraaije, Carolina D'Arpa, Barry W.M. van Bakel, John W.M. Jagt, Giuseppe Zarcone; The Gemmellaro Collection: first record of an anomuran from the Tithonian of Sicily, Italy. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 2017;; 188 (3): 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2017184
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- Arthropoda
- biogeography
- biostratigraphy
- collections
- Crustacea
- Europe
- holotypes
- Italy
- Jurassic
- Malacostraca
- Mandibulata
- Mediterranean region
- Mesozoic
- paleoecology
- paleogeography
- Sicily Italy
- Southern Europe
- species diversity
- Tithonian
- Upper Jurassic
- Anomura
- Galatheoidea
- Gastrosacus tuberosus
- Gemmellaro Collection
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