Eden Creek (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.8° N, 125.4° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° N, 91.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Comox Formation (Nanaimo Group), Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, fine-grained, sandy, conglomeratic sandstone and lithified, fine-grained, silty siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, J. Fam, W. A. Hessin, S. W. Hetrick, T. G. Nyborg, and R. L. M. Ross. 2003. Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. In P.B. Cavers (ed.), NRC Research Press 1-66 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122491: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 31.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Ctenochelidae
Ctenochelidae indet. Manning and Felder 1991 decapod
 Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae
Cenomanocarcinus beardi n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2003 crab