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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Lophoranina georgiana Rathbun 1935 crab |