Where: New Jersey (40.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 44.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merchantville Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Rathbun does not give any stratigraphic information, but the area around Lenola is mapped as the upper Merchantville and lower Woodbury Formation. Subsequent papers assign Xanthias lenolensis to the Merchantville Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by E. R. Gudehus; reposited in the ANSP

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. A new xanthid crab from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia 87:165-166 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136026: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 15.11.2012

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