Also known as Half a mile east of Evans and about 4 miles south of Hosford; obtained at about water level of Telogia Creek
Where: Liberty County, Florida (30.3° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 83.2° W)
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• "probably upper Miocene (in Florida)"
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• fingers of left cheliped of a large specimen (P. bouvieri);
Collected by W.C. Mansfield, (1/957) USGS in 6, 1925; reposited in the USGS, USNM
• fingers of left cheliped of a large specimen, Cat. No. 371260 / type, Geological collection, Vienna Technical University (P. bouvieri);
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 143896: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 27.04.2013
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Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Petrochirus bouvieri Rathbun 1918 hermit crab |