Croft Bay, James Ross Island (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.0° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 68.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Early to Middle Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• siltstones, shales with calcareous nodules, sandstones and conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1989. The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula. Palaeontology 32(3):499-552 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66658: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa meridionalis Ball 1960 decapod
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Meyeria crofti Ball 1960 decapod
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia stokesi Weller 1903 clawed lobster