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
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 | |
Xanthosia delicata n. sp.
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