NE of Moseley's Ferry, northwestern Brazos County (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Moseley's Ferry

Where: Brazos County, Texas (30.6° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 88.9° W)

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Lower Claiborne Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Cook Mountain formation of the lower Claiborne of the horizon of the Moseley Ferry beds"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one specimen, carapace (L. bakeri);

Collected by John Vick; reposited in the USNM

• four specimens, Cat. No. 371578 (N. americanus); one specimen, carapace, type, Cat. No. 371574 (L. bakeri);

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 142985: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 18.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

• L. bakeri specimen was a gift of Charles L. Baker, Houston.
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
"Plagiolophus bakeri n. sp." = Pilummede bakeri
"Plagiolophus bakeri n. sp." = Pilummede bakeri Rathbun 1935 crab
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Neozanthopsis americanus Rathbun 1928 crab