Vicksburg (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 85.1° W)

When: Glendon Formation (Vicksburg Group), Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• a right manus (G. berryi);

Collected by loaned by E.W. Berry

• right manus, type, Johns Hopkins University (G. berryi);

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 143354: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 23.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa berryi n. sp. Rathbun 1935 decapod