Turner valley, southern Alberta (Cretaceous of Canada)
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 53.8° N, 73.3° W)
When: Benton Shale Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
• "Benton shale"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one large specimen (L. canadensis);
Collection methods: University of Alberta, type (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 142104: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 05.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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