Where: Texas (30.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 87.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• No stratigraphic information given, but location mapped as Cook Mountain Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by John E. Adams; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1928. Two new crabs from the Eocene of Texas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 73:1-6 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135774: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Harpactocarcinus americanus n. sp.
Harpactocarcinus americanus n. sp. Rathbun 1928 crab |