Where: Liessel, Netherlands (51.4° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 4.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Breda Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Molluscan fauna suggests a Middle-Late Miocene age (Moll. F3 Zone) [later publications give Tortonian age]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stolzenbach

• Repository: GeoCentrum Brabant, Boxtel

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins and R. H. B. Fraaye. 1991. Cancer parvidens, A new crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Miocene of the Netherlands. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 28(1):1-7 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133112: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 02.09.2012

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