''Jagtia kunradensis'' – the only species in the genus ''Jagtia'' – is a species of
lobster that lived in the Upper
Maastrichtian
The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval ...
age of the
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
period.
It was described in 1998 by Dale Tshudy and Ulf Sorhannus of
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in the ''
Journal of Paleontology
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'', based on material from the
type locality of the
Maastricht Formation.
''Jagtia'' differs from other genera of fossil and extant lobsters by no single feature, but by a combination of characteristics, mostly based on the patterns of grooves on the
carapace.
The genus is named after John J. M. Jagt, curator at the
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht ("Maastricht Natural History Museum"), while the
specific epithet ' records the
type locality,
Kunrade, Limburg, south-eastern Netherlands.
An initial morphological analysis suggested that the closest relatives of ''Jagtia'' might be the extant genera ''
Thymops
''Thymops birsteini'', the Patagonian lobsterette, is a species of lobster found around the coasts of South America, particularly the South Atlantic. It belongs to the monotypic genus ''Thymops''.
Distribution
''T. birsteini'' is found on the co ...
'' and ''
Thymopides''.
References
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True lobsters
Late Cretaceous crustaceans
Fossil taxa described in 2000
Monotypic arthropod genera
Fossils of the Netherlands
Cretaceous Netherlands
Maastrichtian genera
Late Cretaceous arthropods of Europe