Where: Delaware (39.6° N, 75.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.2° N, 36.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Spoil piles are mixtures of Merchantville and Marshalltown Formations, which cannot be distinguished lithologically.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ed Lauginiger
• Repository: New Jersey State Museum
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, L. M. Baltzly, O. A. Bennett, A. R. Jones, F. F. Mathias, K. L. Weaver and S. L. Yost. 2013. New and previously known decapod crustaceans from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey and Delaware, USA. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 39:7-37 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125956: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 27.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Mesostylus mortoni Pilsbry 1901 decapod | |
Linuparus richardsi Roberts 1962 spiny lobster | |
Majoidea indet. Samouelle 1819 spider crab | |
Latheticocarcinus atlanticus Roberts 1962 crab | |
Distefania lauginigeri n. sp.
Distefania lauginigeri n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2013 crab | |
Necrocarcinus rathbunae Roberts 1962 crab | |
Cenomanocarcinus robertsi n. sp.
Cenomanocarcinus robertsi n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2013 crab | |
Cretacoranina testacea Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Seorsus millerae Bishop 1992 crab |