Where: Bexar County, Texas (29.4° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 77.1° W)
When: Navarro Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation unknown
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• One chela with wrist (P. walkeri);
Collected by Mrs. N.S. Walker
• U.S. National Museum, plastotype, Cat. No. 8360 (P. walkeri);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140921: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Palaeastacus walkeri Whitfield 1883 decapod |