Glyphea scabra is a synonym of Trachysoma scabrum (Bell 1858), This identification was confirmed by Charbonnier et al 2013.
Trachysoma scabrum (Bell 1858) is a particularly rare species of lobster found in the London Clay and is a species of glypheoid lobster. Glypheoid lobsters were thought to be extinct before Neoglyphea inopinata was discovered.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclass: Multicrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Superorder: Eucarida
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Glypheidea
Superfamily: Glypheoidea
Family: Glypheidae (Closest living relatives)
Genus: Trachysoma
Species: Trachysoma scabrum
Credit for photo: Thomas Wells
Credit for photo: Thomas Wells
Photos permission granted by Thomas Miller
Location: Seasalter Date: 13 Jun 2020
A diagram of Neoglyphea inopinata which would have looked similar to Trachysoma scabrum.
Trachysoma scabrum is part of the family Glypheidae which has been around since the Permo-Triassic and is still around today.
On the left is a photo of Neoglyphea neocaledonica (from New Caledonia) which is part of the same family as Trachysoma scabrum and still around today.
Acknowledgments:
Thank you very much Thomas Miller and Thomas Wells for allowing usage of the images on this page.
Thanks to Jeff Saward for the corrections on this page
Refrences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glypheoidea
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crustac%C3%A9FossileVivantNeoglypheaInopinata.jpg
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/439995156
https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1619329
Further Reading:
Three new genera and species of crabs from the Lower Eocene London Clay of Essex, England
ENGLISH EOCENE CRUSTACEA (LOBSTERS AND STOMATOPOD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphea
A monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain