Old factory about 1/2 mi above Bainbridge (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Decatur County, Georgia (30.9° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 78.1° W)

When: Glendon Formation (Vicksburg Group), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• a carapace with the anterior and the posterior ends incomplete (L. georgiana);

Collected by T.W. Vaughan, (3397) in 1920; reposited in the USNM

• carapace, type, Cat. No. 371714 (L. georgiana);

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 143378: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 23.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina georgiana Rathbun 1935 crab