Hvar Island Decapods (Eocene of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (43.2° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Foraminiferal Limestones Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• Crabs were collected from the Foraminiferal limestones (Bartonian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, A. M. Shirk, V. Cosovic, Y. Okan, R. M. Feldmann and I. Hosgor. 2007. New species of Harpactocarcinus from the Tethyan Eocene and their paleoecological setting. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):1091-1100 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75596: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 19.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Harpactocarcinus dalmatius n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2007 crab