Lake Waccamaw (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Columbus County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 75.5° W)
When: Duplin Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• three fingers (E. limosum);
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 150646: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• three fingers, Cat. No. 166071 (E. limosum);
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Malacostraca | |
Eurytium limosum Say 1817 crab |