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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, Boxtel, The Netherlands

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaije. 2002. New calappid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Late Maastrichtian of the Netherlands. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):913-917 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126557: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 07.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham and Mark Uhen

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