Cambridge Greensand Decapod Locality: Late/Upper Albian, United Kingdom
collected 1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Longodromitidae
Glaessnerella decipiens (Wright and Collins 1972)
Wright and Collins 1972
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Distefania transiens (Wright and Collins 1972)
Wright and Collins 1972
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae
Orithopsis tricarinata (Bell 1863)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Notopocorystes serotinus
Notopocorystes stokesii (Mantell 1844)
recombined as Notopocorystes stokesi
Eucorystes carteri (M'Coy 1854)
Eucorystes iserbyti van Bakel et al. 2012
Eucorystes ligulatus (Wright and Collins 1972)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolidae
Latheticocarcinus brightoni (Wright and Collins 1972)
Wright and Collins 1972
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 0.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 2.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cambridge Greensand
Stratigraphy comments: described as (Upper Albian, altonense to perinflatum subzones)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Collection size:200 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1972
Collection method comments: Specimens in Van Bakel 2012:
Eucorystes carteri: NHM In. 29645-1-7 and NHM In. 29903-1-5, 12 carapaces; SM B23091, well-pre- served carapace, abdomen and sternum; IRScNB
unregistered, Van Straelen Collection, drawer 218, approximately 100 specimens, some with remains of abdomen, thoracic sternum and pereiopods
Notopocorystes serotinus: IRScNB unregistered, Van Straelen Collection, drawer 218, approximately 80 well-preserved specimens with preservation of ventral characters,
E. iserbyti n. sp.
E. ligulatus: holotype, SM B23137, carapace
Orithopsis tricarinata (Bell, 1863), IRScNB unnumbered [Van Straelen Collection; indeterminate sex], upper Albian Cambridge Greensand, Cambridge (southern England); dorsal view of carapace, and ventral view showing anterior part of thoracic sternum; female, carapace and abdomen
Metadata
Database number:172273
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Clapham Enterer:L. Baltzly, J. Fearon
Modifier:J. Fearon Research group:decapod
Created:2015-08-01 11:23:00 Last modified:2024-03-19 18:14:24
Access level:the public Released:2015-08-01 11:23:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46002.decapod,fossil record B. W. M. van Bakel, D. Guinot, P. Artal, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata). Zootaxa 3215:1-216 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

55837decapod C. W. Wright and J. S. H. Collins. 1972. British Cretaceous Crabs. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 1-114 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]