Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 70.2° W)
When: Shiloh marl Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• source paper cites as "Cretaceous"
•geologic maps give early Miocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one specimen of right manus (A. whitfieldi);
Collected by S. Wetherill
• Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, holotype, Cat. No. 4693 (A. whitfieldi);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142356: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 10.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Archaeocarabus whitfieldi Pilsbry 1901 spiny lobster |