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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Zanthopsis errans Woods 1922 crab |