I43/f112 (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.6° S, 170.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 178.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Caversham Sandstone Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, massive, yellow, silty, sandy limestone

• light yellow, poorly indurated, massive, slightly quartzose, silty to sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann and R. E. Fordyce. 1996. A new cancrid crab from New Zealand . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 39:509-513 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202151: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Lobocarcinus pustulosus n. sp. Feldmann and Fordyce 1996 crab