Where: South Dakota (45.4° N, 100.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 68.8° W)

When: Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: G.A. Bishop. 1978. Two New Crabs, Sodakus tatankayotankaensis n. gen., n. sp. and Raninella oaheensis n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda), from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):608-617 [M. Clapham/D. Sammanna]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235358: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Diya Sammanna on 02.07.2024

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