Gaugatha Beach (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Accomack County, Virginia (37.7° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 72.7° W)

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by James P. Lucas in September, 1894

• specimen returned to sender/collector (C. sapidus);

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 144076: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 30.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896 swimming crab