Where: Calhoun County, South Carolina (33.6° N, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 70.1° W)
When: lower Claiborne Group, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• dorsal view of carapace, ventral view of sternum and abdomen (N. carolinensis);
Collected by T.W. Vaughan, (4585); reposited in the USNM
• male carapace, holotype, Cat. No. 371586 (N. carolinensis);
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 143059: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Zanthopsis carolinensis n. sp.
Zanthopsis carolinensis n. sp. Rathbun 1935 crab |