Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 2.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• described as (Upper Albian, altonense to perinflatum subzones)

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected in 1972

• Specimens in Van Bakel 2012:

•Eucorystes carteri: NHM In. 29645-1-7 and NHM In. 29903-1-5, 12 carapaces; SM B23091, well-pre- served carapace, abdomen and sternum; IRScNB

•unregistered, Van Straelen Collection, drawer 218, approximately 100 specimens, some with remains of abdomen, thoracic sternum and pereiopods

•Notopocorystes serotinus: IRScNB unregistered, Van Straelen Collection, drawer 218, approximately 80 well-preserved specimens with preservation of ventral characters,

•E. iserbyti n. sp.

•E. ligulatus: holotype, SM B23137, carapace

•Orithopsis tricarinata (Bell, 1863), IRScNB unnumbered [Van Straelen Collection; indeterminate sex], upper Albian Cambridge Greensand, Cambridge (southern England); dorsal view of carapace, and ventral view showing anterior part of thoracic sternum; female, carapace and abdomen

Primary reference: B. W. M. van Bakel, D. Guinot, P. Artal, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata). Zootaxa 3215:1-216 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172273: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 01.08.2015, edited by J Fearon

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