Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.0° W)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Deadman Island- one right immovable finger (P. tuberculata); three movable fingers and a right manus with fixed finger attached (S. acutifrons); one right movable finger (Chorilia sp.); one right merus and one piece of a left manus (M. idae); 6 moveable fingers (H. nudus); 3 movable and 3 immovable fingers (H. oregonensis); more than 25 fingers, 8 palms and 1 wrist (L. diegensis); 17 movable fingers (L. leucomanus); 4 movable and 2 immovable fingers (C. productus); 2 movable fingers (R. branneri); 13 movable fingers, 1 immovable finger (R. jordani); 3 movable and 1 immovable finger (M. gracilis); 6 arms (R. ornata); 3 hands with fixed finger attached (one of which is the holotype), and 6 arms (R. pleistocenica); 16 arms (R. pleistocenica); one right movable finger or dactylus, holotype (D. arnoldi); one propodus of right cheliped (P. granosimanus); one left immovable finger, three right movable fingers (N. gigas);

Collected by Arnold; reposited in the USNM

• R. jordani (Cat. No. 353387, USNM); R. pleistocenica (Cat. No. 353346); D. arnoldi, holotype in Stanford University;

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138719: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.01.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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