About 5 mi NW of Oakville, Chehalis Co., in shales on Gibson Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Chehalis County, Washington (46.9° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 113.5° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Katherine V.W. Palmer; reposited in the USNM

• 2 specimens, Cat. No. 353403

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 139462: 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