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Palaega rugosa, a new species of fossil isopod (Crustacea) from Maastrichtian rocks of Tunisia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Rodney M. Feldmann  and
Stijn Goolaerts
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Stijn Goolaerts
Affiliation:
Department of Geology-Geography, KU Leuven, Redigenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Recent, intensive collecting for Maastrichtian ammonites in Tunisia has yielded a single small isopod specimen from the Kalaat Senaan region. The isopod is a new species of Palaega Woodward, 1870 and appears to be the first representative of the genus to be recorded from the Maastrichtian of northern Africa.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 79 , Issue 5 , September 2005 , pp. 1031 - 1035
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