Where: Lane County, Oregon (44.0° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 113.3° W)
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• "Horizon 200 or 300 feet above the other specimens"
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• One specimen (Z. hendersonianus) of carapace with front and left antero-lateral margin broken away, holotype; one female, showing carapace and abdomen (P. bigranulata); one carapace with minor chela (C. lanensis);
Collected by Chester W. Washburne, USGS; reposited in the USNM
• Cat. No. 353373 (Z. hendersonianus); Cat. No. 353566 (P. bigranulata); Cat. No. 353350 (C. lanensis);
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 139538: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 13.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Calappa lanensis Rathbun 1926 box crab | |
Persephona bigranulata Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Zanthopsis hendersonianus Rathbun 1926 crab |