Where: Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 75.7° W)
When: Lewis shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one specimen, "carapace reaches a length of 19 millimeters" (T. subquadratus);
Reposited in the USNM
• one specimen, Cat. No. 73716 (T. subquadratus);
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 142404: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 11.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Tetracarcinus subquadratus Weller 1905 crab |