Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.1° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 68.6° W)

When: Midway Group, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one specimen (D. americana); one fragment (P. alabamensis); one specimen, a merus of a left ambulatory leg of a large species (Xanthidae sp.);

Collected by L.C. Johnson, (7-11)

• one specimen, Alabama Museum of Natural History (D. americana); one fragment, Alabama Museum of Natural History (P. alabamensis); merus of left ambulatory leg, Ala. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Xanthidae sp.);

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 142896: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 18.04.2013

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