Kimmeridgeienne Formation (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Yonne, France (48.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 8.5° E)

When: Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; carbonate

• The Neocomian beds are described as supporting an enormous sand dune that travels the expanse of the beds, constituting a special system of plateaus, containing only fragments of fossils. The depositional environment is interperetted as a product of rain following the destruction of one part of the entire continent.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. J. B. Robineau-Desvoidy. 1849. Mémoire sur les Crustacés du terrain néocomien de St. Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Annales de la Societé Entomologique de France 7(2):95-141 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146256: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 19.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Xantho agassizi Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 stone crab
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Parthenope neocomiensis Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 crab
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Galatheidae
Galathea lupiae Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 decapod
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia dentata Roemer 1841 clawed lobster
"Homarus edwardsi" = Hoploparia edwardsi Robineae-Desvoidy 1849 clawed lobster
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea neocomiensis Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 decapod
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Enoploclytia salviensis Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 decapod
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Upogebiidae
Upogebia munsteri Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 mud shrimp
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
Upogebia meyeri Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 mud shrimp
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
Upogebia digitata Robineau-Desvoidy 1849 mud shrimp
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849
 Decapoda - Thalassinidae
Thalassina grandidactylus Robineau Desvoidy 1849 decapod
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849