Vancouver Island (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.8° N, 125.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 55.1° N, 86.1° W (Wright 2013)

When: Nanaimo Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens in Provincial Museum, Victoria, and in Museum of the Geological Society of Ottawa

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139008: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus canadensis Whiteaves 1884 spiny lobster
Linuparus vancouverensis Whiteaves 1895 spiny lobster