Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.0° W)

When: Midway Group, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• "Sucarnoochee beds"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one fragment of finger (O. cookei); dactylus of left cheliped (O. cultellus); one specimen (L. wilcoxensis); one specimen (P. alabamensis); two dactyls of right major chelipeds (P. estellensis);

Collection methods: one fragment of finger, Alabama Museum of Natural History (O. cookei); dactylus of left cheliped, holotype in Alabama Museum of Natural History (O. cultellus); one specimen, Alabama Museum of Natural History (L. wilcoxensis); one specimen, Alabama Museum of Natural HIstory (P. alabamensis); two dactyls of right major chelipeds, the smaller is the holotype, the other is the paratype, Alabama Museum of Natural History (P. estellensis);

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 142749: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 16.04.2013

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