Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.5° N, 82.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moin Formation, Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• "Port Limon Formation, Pliocene Series" (now known as the Moin Formation of Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age, according to Todd & Collins, 2005)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by L.A. Wailes; 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 135452: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Malacostraca | |
Petrolisthes avitus n. sp., Pachycheles latus n. sp.
Petrolisthes avitus n. sp. Rathbun 1918 decapod
Pachycheles latus n. sp. Rathbun 1918 decapod | |
Calappa costaricana n. sp.
Calappa costaricana n. sp. Rathbun 1918 box crab | |
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Heteractaea lunata Milne Edwards and Lucas 1843 stone crab | |
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Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille 1828 crab | |