Dakoticancer australisRathbun, 1935

Remarks

• Collector:         Dan Woehr

• Formation:       Corsicana Formation

• Location:          Bexar County, Texas

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General Info  

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• "Muffin" Crab

• 1935 Dakoticancer overana australis Rathbun

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Navarro Group, Escondido Limestone of south-central Texas

• Ripley Formation of Mississippi

• Navarro Group, Corsicana Formation of south-central Texas

Age

• Dakoticancer australis Rathbun occurs in the Coahuilites sheltoni Böse and Sphenodiscus plurisepta (Conrad) Zones, Middle Maastrichtian Stage (~67 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Bexar County, TX

• Chickasaw County, MS

• Union County, MS

Remarks  

         For identification and descriptions, see:  

• Rathbun, M. J.  1935.  Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain.  Geological Society of America Special Paper 2, 40–41; plate10, fig. 20.