Where: Douglas County, Oregon (43.0° N, 123.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Days Creek Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• lobsters collected from upper member of Days Creek Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone and concretionary siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by D. Jones in 1970; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann. 1974. Hoploparia riddlensis, a new species of lobster (Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Days Creek Formation (Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous) of Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 48(3):586-593 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45688: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 24.11.2004

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