Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.2° N, 77.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.8° N, 43.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1923. Decapod Crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous of North Carolina. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey 5:403-408 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135758: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Eryma americana n. sp.
Eryma americana n. sp. Rathbun 1923 decapod |