Abstract:The cuticle structure of fossil decapod crustaceans is an important tool, not only for palaeocological and taphonomic interpretations, but also as a potential way to characterise systematically genera and even species the cuticle of which has not been severely altered by diagenetic processes. Localities with abundant decapod crustacean remains can be interpreted either as reflecting mass mortality events or just simple accumulations of exuviae, on the basis of completeness and comparison of cuticle structures … Show more
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