Barton Creek, Austin (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 62.5° W)

When: Buda limestone Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

• "lower part of Buda limestone"

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• (G. texanus);

Collected by Whitney; reposited in the USNM

• two cotypes (Univ. Texas), one specimen, Cat. No. 73851 (G. texanus);

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 142405: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 11.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Dynomenidae
Graptocarcinus texanus Roemer 1887 crab
= Cyphonotus integrimarginatus, Wright & Wright 1950