Journal
PALAEOWORLD
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 566-571Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2016.08.003
Keywords
Neogene; Pliocene; Siwaliks; Potaminae; Acanthopotamon martensi; Molecular clock
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- German Research Foundation [DFG KL2378/2-1]
- Ministry of Earth Science [MoES/P.O. (Geosci)/46/2015]
- PURSE GRANT
- Center for Advanced Study (CAS)
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We describe a fossil freshwater crab specimen from the Tatrot Formation, Siwalik Group, of Northern India. We assign this specimen on the basis of morphology of the anterolateral margin, which is comparable to the extant species Acanthopotamon martensi (Wood-Mason, 1875) in the Ganges valley. We re-interpret previously described claw fragments from the same formation that have been assigned to the gecarcinucid species Sartoriana spinigera (Wood-Mason, 1871). This casts doubt on previous approaches to calibrate a molecular clock for primary freshwater crabs that used these fossils as minimum age of Sartoriana spinigera. However, the present findings allow setting a confident lower age constraint for the appearance of A. martensi to get a more accurate estimate for nucleic acid substitution rates. The age of fossil Acanthopotamon martensi based on the magnetostratigraphy of the Tatrot Formation is similar to 2.6 Ma (latest Pliocene). (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. All rights reserved.
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