Fakse limestone quarry (Jakobsen collection) (Paleocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (55.3° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP3 nannofossil zone, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Middle Danian age, local Tylocidaris bruennichi echinoid zone and nannoplankton zone NP3.

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Bryozoan-coral mound complex

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S.L. Jakobsen

• Repository: Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Primary reference: S. L. Jakobsen and J. S. H. Collins. 1997. New middle Danian species of anomuran and brachyuran crabs from Fakse, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 44:89-100 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146257: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 19.06.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Homolidae
Homolopsis "sp. 1", Homolopsis "sp. 2", "Eohomola affinis n. sp." = Latheticocarcinus affinis, "Homolopsis spiniga n. sp." = Latheticocarcinus spinigus
Homolopsis "sp. 1" Bishop and Brannen 1992 crab
Homolopsis "sp. 2" Bishop and Brannen 1992 crab
"Eohomola affinis n. sp." = Latheticocarcinus affinis Jakobsen and Collins 1997 crab
"Homolopsis spiniga n. sp." = Latheticocarcinus spinigus Jakobsen and Collins 1997 crab
 Decapoda - Etyidae
Xanthosia gracilis n. sp.
Xanthosia gracilis n. sp. Jakobsen and Collins 1997 crab
 Decapoda - Munidopsidae
Faxegalathea platyspinosa n. gen. n. sp.
Faxegalathea platyspinosa n. gen. n. sp. Jakobsen and Collins 1997 decapod