Sitting Bull (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: South Dakota (45.5° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 73.4° W)

When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G.A. Bishop. 1982. Homolopsis mendryki: A New Fossil Crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous Dakoticancer Assemblage, Pierre Shale (Maastrichtian) of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 56(1):221-225 [M. Clapham/A. Dalal]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235362: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Anya Dalal on 03.07.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites grandis
Baculites grandis Hall and Meek 1855 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia sp.
Hoploparia sp. Karasawa 1998 clawed lobster
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus sp.
Linuparus sp. White 1847 spiny lobster
 Decapoda - Dakoticancridae
Dakoticancer overanus
Dakoticancer overanus Rathbun 1917 crab
 Decapoda - Ibericancridae
Sodakus tatankayotankaensis
 Decapoda - Homolidae
"Homolopsis punctata" = Latheticocarcinus punctatus, "Homolopsis mendryki" = Zygastrocarcinus mendryki
"Homolopsis punctata" = Latheticocarcinus punctatus Rathbun 1917 crab
"Homolopsis mendryki" = Zygastrocarcinus mendryki Bishop 1982 crab
 Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
Necrocarcinus pierrensis
Necrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun 1917 crab
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
"Raninella oaheensis" = Bournelyreidus oaheensis
"Raninella oaheensis" = Bournelyreidus oaheensis Bishop 1978 crab
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa cheyennensis
Callianassa cheyennensis Rathbun 1930 decapod