Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Unit Klb9
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, D. M. Tshudy, and M. R. A. Thomson. 1993. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir 28:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Rhinopoupinia bicornis n. gen. n. sp.
Rhinopoupinia bicornis n. gen. n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1993 crab |