Currane Decapods (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.4° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 54.7° S, 133.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tambo Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Primary reference: J. T. Woods. 1957. Macrusous Decapods from the Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13(3):155-175 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165461: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 19.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia mesembria Etheridge 1917 clawed lobster
 Decapoda - Stenochiridae
Tillocheles shannonae Woods 1957 decapod
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea oculata Woods 1957 decapod
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Astacodes sp. Bell 1863 spiny lobster