Where: France (48.0° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Originally assigned a Bathonian age based on age of rocks exposed in quarry. Bryozoans associated with the crab are of Cenozoic, probably Miocene, in age and are not Jurassic.

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

• single carapace

Collected by Thierry Rebours in 2003; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: D. Guinot, A. De Angeli, and A. Garassino. 2007. Hebertides jurassica n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Normandy (France). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 148(2):241-260 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127499: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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