Salt Creek, 8 1/2 mi NW of Oil City (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Fresno County, California (35.5° N, 119.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 105.0° W)
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
• Carapace of very small specimen
Collected by Robert Anderson, USGS in 1909; reposited in the USNM
• Small carapace (Cat. No. 353352)
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: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138986: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 06.02.2013
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Malacostraca | |
Orbitoplax weaveri Rathbun 1926 crab |