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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Plagiolophus bakeri n. sp." = Pilummede bakeri
"Plagiolophus bakeri n. sp." = Pilummede bakeri Rathbun 1935 crab | |
Neozanthopsis americanus Rathbun 1928 crab |