Where: Denmark (57.0° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Just below ash layer -17

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, concretionary diatomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, Copenhagen

Primary reference: A. Garassino and S. L. Jakobsen. 2005. Morscrangon acutus n. gen. n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Fur Formation (Early Eocene) of the Islands of Mors and Fur (Denmark). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 146(1):95-107 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157319: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2014

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