Little Brazos River (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 85.5° W)
When: Crockett Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• a manus (C. brazoensis);
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 142845: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 17.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Harpactocarcinus sp. has a form of chela intermediate between those of H. americanus and H. rathbunae - because the g. Harpactocarcinus was corrected/updated to g. Neozanthopsis, it is possible that the Harpactocarcinus sp. should also be considered a Neozanthopsis sp.
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Harpactocarcinus rathbunae n. sp. Stenzel 1934 crab | |
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Callianassa brazoensis Stenzel 1934 decapod | |