Quarry Ankerpoort-'t Rooth, central part of Nekum Member (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nekum Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Central part of the Nekum Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rick Bonte in 1998

• Repository: Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort Museum

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaije. 2002. The first record of albuneid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (29)69-72 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133114: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 02.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Albuneidae
Praealbunea rickorum n. gen. n. sp.
Praealbunea rickorum n. gen. n. sp. Fraaije 2002 decapod