Natchitoches parish, in well of Amerada Petroleum Company, Wafer No. 1... (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as ...depth 3165-3168 feet

Where: Natchitoches parish County, Louisiana (32.0° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 59.2° W)

When: Eagle Ford Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one specimen (G. aquilae); specimen showing midrib of hind part of carapace (L. canadensis);

Collected by Sidney Powers in May, 1927; reposited in the USNM

• one specimen, Cat. No. 73785 (G. aquilae); Cat. No. 73798 (L. canadensis);

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 142091: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 05.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus canadensis Whiteaves 1884 spiny lobster
= Linuparus atavus, Ortmann 1897
 Decapoda - Ctenochelidae
Gourretia aquilae Rathbun 1935 decapod