ENCI Quarry, 6 m above base of Meerssen Member (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• IVF4 Meerssen Member, 6 meters above the base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Fine-grained bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rene Fraaye in 1995

• Repository: Geological Museum Ammonientenhoeve Boxtel

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaye. 1996. Late Cretaceous swimming crabs: radiation, migration, competition, and extinction. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46(3-4):269-278 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126168: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 31.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Etyidae
Xanthosia delicata n. sp. Fraaye 1996 crab
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