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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Avitelmessus grapsoideus Rathbun 1923 crab |