Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• Likely collected from multiple stratigraphic units, given later discoveries of the species in other units of various ages.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.M. Gabb; reposited in the ANSP
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135462: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Malacostraca | |
Archaeopilumnus caelatus n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeopilumnus caelatus n. gen. n. sp. Rathbun 1919 crab | |
Scylla costata n. sp., Portunus gabbi n. sp., Sandomingia yaquiensis n. gen. n. sp., Podophthalmus domingensis n. sp.
Scylla costata n. sp. Rathbun 1919 swimming crab
Portunus gabbi n. sp. Rathbun 1919 swimming crab
Sandomingia yaquiensis n. gen. n. sp. Rathbun 1919 swimming crab
Podophthalmus domingensis n. sp. Rathbun 1919 swimming crab | |
"Callianassa miocenica n. sp." = Neocallichirus scotti
"Callianassa miocenica n. sp." = Neocallichirus scotti Brown and Pilsbry 1913 decapod | |