Sandy shale bluffs along the Chehalis River NW of the mouth of Lincoln Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as (Lincoln creek runs into the river at Galvin)

Where: Washington (46.7° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 113.3° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale

• "Sandy shale bluffs"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• A large right manus (M. triangulum)

Collected by Harold Hannibal

• 3 specimens (P. vulgaris), Stanford University (N. Pac. 211)

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 139460: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Pilodius vulgaris Glaessner 1928 stone crab
 Decapoda - Macropipidae
Maeandricampus triangulum Rathbun 1926 crab