Where: Puerto Rico (18.0° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 61.6° W)
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When: El Rayo Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified, calcareous limestone
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martiniez, A. Hull, R. M. Feldmann and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89475: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 24.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Palaeoxanthopsis tylotus n. sp.
Palaeoxanthopsis tylotus n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2008 crab | |
Lophoranina precocia Feldmann 1996 crab |