A beautifully preserved comma shrimp (Pancrustacea: Peracarida) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Japan and the fossil record of crown Cumacea

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Comma shrimp, or cumaceans, are diverse benthic crustaceans, yet they are one of the groups with the poorest fossil record, hindering our understanding of the evolution of the group in deep time. Here, we describe a new species of fossil comma shrimp, Makrokylindrus itoi sp. nov., from the Plio-Pleistocene of Japan. The singular fossil is exceptionally preserved, including details of the carapace, cuticle, and some appendages, and it represents the first known fossil of the family Diastylidae and only the fourth fossil crown group cumacean known to date. We suggest that the scarce and sparsely known fossil record of cumaceans likely reflects a lack of recognition due to their small size and unfamiliar anatomy, making fossil cumaceans easy to misidentify, be confused with crustacean larvae of unknown affinities, or be interpreted as fragments of other crustaceans (taxonomic bias), rather than a lack of fossilization potential (taphonomic bias).

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Luque, J., & Gerken, S. (2024). A beautifully preserved comma shrimp (Pancrustacea: Peracarida) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Japan and the fossil record of crown Cumacea. Invertebrate Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12440

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