Where: California (32.7° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 116.9° W)
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Right movable finger and right immovable finger of much larger specimen (C. productus)
Collected by Frank Stephens in 5, 1918; reposited in the USNM
• C. productus, Cat. No. 8258 USNM
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 139843: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.02.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Cancer productus Randall 1839 crab | |
Polyplacophora | |
Mopalia muscosa Gould 1846 chiton | |
Cryptochiton stelleri Middendorf 1847 chiton | |
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) conspicuus" = Stenoplax conspicua, "Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) acrior" = Stenoplax magdalenensis
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) conspicuus" = Stenoplax conspicua Carpenter 1879 conspicuous chiton
"Ischnochiton (Stenoplax) acrior" = Stenoplax magdalenensis Hinds 1845 magdalena chiton |