Where: Croatia (43.2° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 13.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Foraminiferal Limestones Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• Crabs were collected from the Foraminiferal limestones (Bartonian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, A. M. Shirk, V. Cosovic, Y. Okan, R. M. Feldmann and I. Hosgor. 2007. New species of Harpactocarcinus from the Tethyan Eocene and their paleoecological setting. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):1091-1100 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75596: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 19.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Harpactocarcinus dalmatius n. sp.
Harpactocarcinus dalmatius n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2007 crab |