Bush Canyon, north of Hulett (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stockade Beaver Shale Member (Sundance Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, calcareous shale

• Medium to dark gray, soft, fissile calcareous shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Bobb Schaeffer; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. M. Herrick and F. R. Schram. 1978. Malacostracan crustacean fauna from the Sundance Formation (Jurassic) of Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2652:1-12 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162922: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 07.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Mecochirus sp. Germar 1827 decapod
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glypheidae indet. Winckler 1883 decapod
 Decapoda - Penaeidae
Bombur sp. Munster 1839 decapod
Antrimpos sp. Munster 1839 decapod