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 | |
Verrucarcinus cutifrontis n. sp.
Verrucarcinus cutifrontis n. sp. Franţescu 2011 crab |