Where: Dominican Republic (19.5° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Initially assigned to "lower Miocene" but other specimens later found in the Cercado Formation (Collins et al., 2009)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.J. Maury in 1916; reposited in the USNM
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 135463: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Petrochirus inequalis n. sp.
Petrochirus inequalis n. sp. Rathbun 1919 hermit crab |