Munsterland Basin NW Germany (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51.4° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 8.1° E)

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: B. W. M. van Bakel, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. A new early Campanian Species of Xanthosia (Decapoda, Brachyura) From Northwestern Germany. Crustaceana 78(3):285-295 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126559: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 07.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa vidali Via 1959 decapod
 Decapoda - Etyidae
Xanthosia socialis n. sp. van Bakel et al. 2005 crab