Crum's Mill (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Alcorn County, Mississippi (34.9° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 61.5° 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

Collected by L.C. Johnson, (552) in September, 1888; reposited in the USNM

• USNM, Cat. Nos. 73721, 73730 (A. grapsoideus);

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 142474: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Dakoticancridae
Avitelmessus grapsoideus Rathbun 1923 crab