1 1/2 mi SE of Reid's Ferry (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Nansemond County, Virginia (36.8° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 74.8° W)

When: Yorktown Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• two fingers (P. herbstii);

Collected by USGS; reposited in the USNM

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 150597: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 11.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

• two fingers, Cat. No. 166075 (P. herbstii);
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Panopeus herbstii Edwards 1834 crab