Antelope Shale (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: California (39.0° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 78.4° W)

When: Antelope Shale Member (Antelope Shale Formation), Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2001. New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:173-210 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139723: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Palaeastacus trisulcatus Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 decapod
Schweitzer and Feldmann, 2001