Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• No exact level indicated

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified diatomite

Size class: mesofossils

• Pereopods II-V preserved. Abdominal appendages preserved.

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, Copenhagen

Primary reference: A. Garassino and S. L. Jakobsen. 2005. Morscrangon acutus n. gen. n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Fur Formation (Early Eocene) of the Islands of Mors and Fur (Denmark). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 146(1):95-107 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127280: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 08.05.2012

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