Rocky Point, 4 mi E of Yaquina City (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as in a railroad cut a few feet west of bridge No. 9

Where: Oregon (44.6° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 114.1° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• E. martini (embedded in nodule so that the under side of body is exposed together with impressions of the chelipeds; the other half of the nodule shows the impression of the ventral surface of the body and the actual upper surface of the chelipeds in part); 1 specimen (M. triangulum); one specimen, holotype, showing less than half the carapace and a piece of the sternum with spine (M. yaquinensis);

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collected by Bruce Martin

• Holotype (E. martini) in California Academy of Sciences, Loc. 42.; 56 specimens (P. vulgaris); Holotype (M. yaquinensis) in University of California;

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 139022: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Euryplacidae
Eucrate martini Rathbun 1926 crab
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Pilodius vulgaris Glaessner 1928 stone crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Mursia yaquinensis Rathbun 1926 box crab
 Decapoda - Macropipidae
Maeandricampus triangulum Rathbun 1926 crab