Issues

Recently, a new species of glypheoid lobster was described from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Raasay, in the Inner Hebrides (Feldmann et al. 2002). The paper had no sooner appeared than one of us, RF, received correspondences from Dr. Crispin Little, University of Leeds, and another of us, DE, Northern Arizona University, United States, indicating that both had collected similar specimens about which nothing had been published. Unlike the specimen that formed the basis for the type description, collected by Glen Crisp from a block of Scalpa Sandstone incorporated in a landslide, the specimens collected by Little and Elliott were collected in place. Furthermore, the specimen collected by Elliott contains some morphological detail that was not preserved on the holotype specimen. Thus, the purpose of this note is to provide detailed stratigraphic context for the occurrence of Pseudoglyphea foersteriFeldmann, Crisp and Pirrie, 2002, expand the geographical and geological range of the species, and add to our understanding of the morphology of the species.

Stratigraphical and geographical range

The holotype specimen of Pseudoglyphea foersteri, BM(NH) IC 291, was collected from a dislodged block of material in landslide debris along the eastern coastline of Raasay, just north from Hallaig, National Grid Reference NG 5861 4030, Island of Raasay (Feldmann et al. 2002, p. 24) (Figs. 1 & 2). It should be noted that the catalogue number of the holotype was incorrectly assigned and, therefore, the number IC 117 is incorrectly given in the original description. The number IC 291 herein reflects . . .