Key Biscayne, FL (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (25.7° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 80.2° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• The paper does not give any specific information on the lithology or the geologic setting of the fossils. The time frame selected is "Holocene" but it appears that the author is describing recent species as he gives no indication as to how old the specimens are. Also, some of the locations for this paper are lumped together because of the very general ways in which the locations are described. For example, "...not uncommon on the Florida Coast." Where this is done I will include the page number that can be referenced in regards to the species under the notes section of the taxonomic list.
• Our specimens are from Key Biscayne, Florida.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Stimpson. 1862. Notes on North American Crustacea. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(1):49-93 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146579: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 27.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Atelecyclidae
"Chlorodius floridanus" = Atelecyclus
"Chlorodius floridanus" = Atelecyclus crab
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Achelous ordwayi swimming crab
 Decapoda - Majidae
"Mithrax spinosissimus" = Maguimithrax spinosissimus Lamarck 1818 spider crab
Mithrax verrocosus spider crab
Mithrax hispidus Herbst 1790 spider crab
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
 Decapoda - Gecarcinidae
Gecarcinus ruricola Linnaeus 1758 crab
 Decapoda - Plagusiidae
Plagusia sayi crab
Stimpson (pg. 64)