Where: Poland (50.9° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 20.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• The presence of ammonites, both Callihoplites auritus (J. Sowerby), Anahoplites splendens (J. Sowerby) and Schloenbachia varians (J. Sowerby) points to the age as being uppermost Albian, close to the junction with the Cenomanian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Collins. 1969. Some Decapod Crustaceans from the Lower Cretaceous of Poland and England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 34(4):565-572 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127556: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 17.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Glypheopsis sanctaecrucis n. sp." = Trachysoma sanctaecrucis
"Glypheopsis sanctaecrucis n. sp." = Trachysoma sanctaecrucis Collins 1969 decapod ssp. sanctaecruis Collins, 1969
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