Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 60.9° W)

When: Pawpaw Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stenzel in 1945

• Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel, 1945 (Fig. 18B, C, E) MAB k. 2885 (indeterminate sex), carapace, MAB k. 2895 (female), partial carapace with remains of abdomen, thoracic sternum and base of mxp3, MAB k. 2909, (indeterminate sex), partial carapace with remains of P1 and thoracic sternum; all from the upper Albian lower Cenomanian (Pawpaw Formation), Tarrant County (Texas, U.S.A).

•- [ ] Marylyreidus punctatus (Rathbun, 1935) n. comb.Notopocorystes punctatus Rathbun, 1935b: 8. Notopocorystes parvus Rathbun, 1935b: 48. Raninella mucronata Rathbun, 1935b: 50. (Fig. 25A–E)Material examined. One incomplete carapace, MAB k. 2884 (male), with well-preserved pleurites, thoracic ster- num and remains of appendages, one fragmentary carapace (MAB k. 2891), plus one carapace with well-preserved pleurites and thoracic sternum (MGSB75297, ex Àlex Ossó-Morales Collection). All from the upper Albian-lower Cenomanian (Pawpaw Formation), Tarrant County, Texas, U.S.A.FIGURE 25. Marylyreidus punctatus (Rathbun, 1935b) n. comb. (Lyreididae, Marylyreidinae n. subfam.), upper Albian- lower Cenomanian (Pawpaw Formation), Tarrant County, Texas (U.S.A); A, D, MAB k. 2884 (male); right lateral view, and ventral view showing thoracic sternum and bases of appendages;

Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1945. Decapod Crustaceans from the Cretaceous of Texas. The University of Texas Publication (4401)401-477 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234564: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by J Fearon on 24.04.2024

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