Where: Grayson County, Texas (33.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 58.8° W)

When: Denton Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• five palms, holotype, paratype, and cotype, also profile of carapace and abdomen(H. dentonensis); numerous small specimens (O. texanus); fragment showing three abdominal segments (Macruran undetermined); numerous, much worn specimens (C. cretacea); one left palm with immobile finger (C. valida); thirty specimens (L. adkinsi); one fragment (S. aspera); one specimen, holotype (F. wintoni); carapace and manus (H. anomala); one specimen, holotype - right, anterior portion of a carapace (P. graysonensis); a small carapace (M. punctatus);

Collected by W.S. Adkins (210) in 1920

• University of Texas, types/cotypes, Coll. No. 210 (H. dentonensis, O. texanus, C. valida, S. aspera, F. wintoni, H. anomala, P. graysonensis, M. punctatus); University of Texas (Macruran undetermined); University of Texas, Coll. No. 284 (C. cretacea, L. adkinsi);

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 141000: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.03.2013, edited by Joanna Wolfe

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