Clark County, Wahtubbee horizon (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Mississippi (32.1° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 78.4° W)

When: Lower Claiborne Group, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• "Wahtubbee horizon, lower Claiborne, middle Eocene"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one right chela (Z. errans);

Collected by Frank Burns; reposited in the USNM

• one right chela, Cat. No. 139148; Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, type (Z. errans);

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143058: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Zanthopsis errans Woods 1922 crab