Danian Beds (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Faxe, Denmark (55.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 12.7° E)

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1901. On some Crustacea collected by Miss Caroline Birley and MMiss L. Copland from the Upper Cretaceous of Faxe, Denmark. Geological magizine 8:486-501 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134735: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 14.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Feldmanniidae
"Carpiliopsis ornatus" = Caloxanthus
"Carpiliopsis ornatus" = Caloxanthus crab
 Decapoda -
Dromiopsis sp. Reuss 1858 crab
Dromiopsis elegans Reuss 1858 crab
Dromiopsis depressa Segerberg 1900 crab
 Decapoda - Homolidae
"Homolopsis transiens" = Latheticocarcinus transiens
"Homolopsis transiens" = Latheticocarcinus transiens Segerberg 1900 crab
 Decapoda - Munididae
 Decapoda - Galatheidae
Galathea munidoides Segerberg 1900 decapod
Galathea strigifera Fischer-Benzon 1866 decapod