Hoploparia gammaroides is the most common lobster found in the London Clay, but complete specimens are rare to come across.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Hoploparia
Species: Hoploparia gammaroides
Hoploparia Gammaroides
Photos permission granted by Andy Hopkinson (finder)
Found: North Kent coast Date: 12 Jul 2023
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Hommarus gammarus
Image from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus_gammarus#/media/File:KreeftbijDenOsse.jpg
The family Nephropidae that Hoploparia gammaroides is apart of is still alive today.
On the left is an image of a relative of Hoploparia gammaroides.
Acknowledgments:
Thank you very much Andy Hopkinson and Gary Walker for allowing usage of the images on this page.
References:
https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1594253
"A monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain"
[Contributions to British palæontology : or, First descriptions of three hundred and sixty species and several genera of fossil Radiata, Articulata, Mollusca, and Pisces from the Tertiary, Cretaceous, Oolitic, and Palæozoic strata of Great Britain]
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/417188395
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/417327004
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/419291601
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/351377224
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/r03867?listIndex=21&listCount=31
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/r03868?listIndex=22&listCount=31
https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/r03869?listIndex=23&listCount=31
https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4646503.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephropoidea
Further reading:
https://ia600407.us.archive.org/26/items/palaeontology30341987pala/palaeontology30341987pala.pdf
Hoploparia Gammaroides
Photos permission granted by Gary Walker