Stump Erymid (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Utah (40.4° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 53.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, Redwater Member (Stump Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary shale

• "Sparsely fossiliferous, gray sandy calcite concretions" within shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Alan L. Titus in 2001; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann and A. L. Titus. 2006. Eryma jungostrix n. sp. (Decapoda; Erymidae) from the Redwater Shale Member of the Stump Formation (Jurassic; Oxfordian) of Utah. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1):63-68 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162919: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 07.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Eryma jungostrix n. sp. Feldmann and Titus 2006 lobster