Locality 20, southwestern Seymour Island (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Unit Klb9

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, D. M. Tshudy, and M. R. A. Thomson. 1993. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir 28:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2021

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Poupiniidae
Rhinopoupinia bicornis n. gen. n. sp.
Rhinopoupinia bicornis n. gen. n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1993 crab