Lower Chalk Dover (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Kent, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 2.9° E)

When: Lower Chalk Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the NHMW

• - [ ] N. normani: NHM In. 44346, carapace with cheliped, Lower Chalk, Cenomanian, Dover (Kent, southern England).

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/J. Fearon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234317: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by J Fearon on 28.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Notopocorystes normani Bell 1863 crab