Where: Union County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 61.6° W)

When: Ripley Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• carapace with basal portion of rostrum (D. australis);

Collected by L.W. Stephenson, (11648) in 21, 1925; reposited in the USNM

• presented by N.C. Whitten, obtained by L.W. Stephenson, collector - six large specimens, one is holotype: USNM, type, Cat. No. 73840 (D. australis);

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 142362: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 10.04.2013

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