Papartinė near Papilė (Jurassic of Lithuania)

Where: Lithuania (56.2° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 27.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kosmoceras grossouvrei ammonoid zone, Papartinė Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• the Middle Jurassic Papartinė Formation (for regional lithological subdivision see GRIGELIS 1985). The age of this bed is the middle Callovian Coronatum Zone,Grossouvrei Subzone, dated after cooccurring finds of ammonites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• thick, weakly cemented red-brown sandstone bed (‘horizon n’ in GRIGELIS 1985) with intercalated iron-oolithic calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geology Collection, Greifswald

Primary reference: G. Schweigert and J. Koppka. 2011. Decapods (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Jurassic of Germany and Lithuania, with descriptions of new species of Planoprosopon and Tanidromites. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 260:221-235 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228768: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Rosa Valdez on 05.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Tanidromitidae
Tanidromites lithuanicus n. sp. Schweigert and Koppka 2011 crab