USGS 4137, Neuse River, 34 2/3 mi above New Bern (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Eryma americana n. sp. Rathbun 1923 decapod