Cottonwood Creek, Shasta Co. (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.5° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 74.5° W)

When: Budden Canyon Formation, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• "Three fragments of claws, remarkable for their long, slender form" (Hoploparia ? sp.)

Collected by W.M. Gabb

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 140349: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia ? sp. Karasawa 1998 clawed lobster