Exact Locality Not Given (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (27.7° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 78.7° W)

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one left major palm, one right (minor?) palm, two movable fingers (N. matsoni); one large female (O. albicans);

Reposited in the USGS, USNM

• J.J. White collected O. albicans specimen;

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 143588: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 25.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

• one left major palm, one right (minor?) palm, two movable fingers, Cat. No. 371463 (N. matsoni); one large female specimen (O. albicans);
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callichiridae
Neocallichirus matsoni Rathbun 1935 decapod
 Decapoda - Ocypodidae
Ocypode quadrata Fabricius 1787 ghost crab
= Ocypode albicans