Veriga Channel road cut (Jurassic to of Romania)

Where: Romania (44.6° N, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 34.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Topalu Member (Casimcea Formation), Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Paleontology, Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Bucharest, Romania (LPBIII)

Primary reference: O. D. Franţescu. 2011. Brachyuran decapods (including five new species and one new genus) from Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) coral reef limestones from Dobrogea, Romania. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 259:271-297 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122469: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Glaessneropsidae
Verrucarcinus cutifrontis n. sp. Franţescu 2011 crab