Where: California (36.4° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 107.2° W)
When: Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by R.W. Pack, USGS in 30, 1909; reposited in the USNM
• O. weaveri, dactyl of ambulatory leg which may belong to this species (Cat. No. 353639)
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 139005: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Orbitoplax weaveri Rathbun 1926 crab |