Where: Newcastle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by C. Miller, W. Beck in the 1970s; reposited in the USNM

• Holotype (USNM 462295), paratype (USNM 462296)

Primary reference: G. A. Bishop. 1992. A New Cretaceous Crab, Diaulax Millerae (Crustacea: Decapoda), from the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA .A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(3):555-561 [M. Clapham/H. Shin/A. Dalal]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235827: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Hayden Shin on 07.08.2024, edited by Anya Dalal

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