River l'Ayaye (Miocene of Haiti)

Where: Haiti (18.7° N, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 70.5° W)

When: Thomonde Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1923. Fossil Crabs from the Republic of Haiti. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63:1-6 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/S. Yost]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135754: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Parthenope sp. Weber 1795 crab
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Panopeus sp. Milne Edwards 1834 crab