Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 84.4° W)
When: Glendon Formation (Vicksburg Group), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• ventral view showing maxilliped, carapace, and sternum, dorsal view of carapace (N. vaughani);
Collected by C.W. Cooke, (6446); loaned by E.W. Berry in 18, 1912; reposited in the USNM
• dorsal view of carapace, holotype, at Johns Hopkins Univeristy, and specimens showing ventral views, incomplete, Cat. No. 371728 (N. vaughani);
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 143402: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 23.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Necronectes vaughani n. sp." = Necronectes vicksburgensis
"Necronectes vaughani n. sp." = Necronectes vicksburgensis Stenzel 1935 swimming crab |