USGS 5850, Mount Hope (Pleistocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.3° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, black mudstone

• black mud

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D.F. MacDonald in 1911; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134957: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.10.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Nephrops sp. Leach 1814 clawed lobster
Nephrops costatus n. sp. Rathbun 1918 clawed lobster
 Decapoda - Axiidae
? Axius sp. Leach 1816 decapod
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Arenaeus sp. Dana 1851 swimming crab
 Decapoda - Aethridae
Hepatus chiliensis Milne-Edwards 1837 crab
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Panopeus antepurpureus n. sp. Rathbun 1918 crab
Panopeus tridentatus n. sp. Rathbun 1918 crab
Eurytium crenulatum n. sp. Rathbun 1918 crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappa flammea Herbst 1794 box crab
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Parthenope pleistocenica n. sp. Rathbun 1918 crab
 Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Leucosiidae indet. Samouelle 1819 crab
Leucosilia jurinei Saussure 1853 crab
 Decapoda - Ocypodidae
Uca macrodactylus Milne Edwards and Lucas 1847 fiddler crab
 Decapoda - Palaemoninae
? Macrobrachium sp. Bate 1868 shrimp