Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 32.0° N, 38.5° W (Wright 2013)
When: Buda limestone Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
• "lower part of Buda limestone"
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• One chela showing fingers and half the palm (P. walkeri); carapaces (G. texanus);
Collected by Whitney; reposited in the USNM
• University of Texas (P. walkeri); two cotypes (Univ. Texas), one specimen, Cat. No. 73851 (G. texanus);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140920: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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Palaeastacus walkeri Whitfield 1883 decapod |