2 km SE of Lugoba (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (6.5° S, 38.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lugoba Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• From the biohermal unit at the top of the Lugoba Formation. Forster gave a Bajocian-Bathonian age range for the Lugoba Formation, but Kapilima (2003) found Early Bajocian ammonites only ~10 m below the biohermal unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: R. Forster. 1985. Frühe Anomuren und Brachyuren (Decapoda, Crustacea) aus dem Mittleren Dogger. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 25:45-60 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147828: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 13.07.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Prosopidae
"Prosopon" sp. von Meyer 1835 crab
Possibly also should be reidentified as Gabriella
 Decapoda - Tanidromitidae
"Prosopon lugobaensis n. sp." = Gabriella lugobaensis
"Prosopon lugobaensis n. sp." = Gabriella lugobaensis Forster 1985 crab