Unusual scaled preservation samples on freshwater decapods (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pleistocene (Late Cenozoic) of Turkey and Kazakistan

Giovanni Pasini; Alessandro Garassino

doi:10.4081/nhs.2011.13

Unusual scaled preservation samples on freshwater decapods (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pleistocene (Late Cenozoic) of Turkey and Kazakistan

https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2011.13

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Vol. 152 No. 1 (2011)

Submitted: 26 February 2014
Accepted: 26 February 2014

Published: 1 January 2011

incrustation, Crustacea, Decapoda, Pleistocene, Anatolia, Caucasian Area

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We report two rare examples of preservation by calcareous incrustation of two specimens of decapod crustaceans, discovered in continental carbonate deposits from the Pleistocene (Late Cenozoic) of SW Turkey (W Anatolia) and S Kazakistan (“Caucasian Area”) respectively. The specimen from Turkey is assigned to Potamon Savigny, 1816 (Potamidae) while the specimen from Kazakistan is assigned to Austropotamobius Skorikov, 1907 (Astacidae).

Pasini, G., & Garassino, A. (2011). Unusual scaled preservation samples on freshwater decapods (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pleistocene (Late Cenozoic) of Turkey and Kazakistan. Natural History Sciences, 152(1), 13–18. https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2011.13