Also known as Three miles SE of Fort Worth, Sycamore Creek Valley
Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 59.8° W)
When: Pawpaw Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one right dactyl and fragment of another (O. comancheensis);
Collected by W.S. Adkins, (196)
• University of Texas, type, Coll. No. 244 (O. comancheensis);
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 142538: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 13.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Ophthalmoplax comancheensis Rathbun 1935 crab |