Long Island Sound, dredged 3/4 of a mile off the shore from Westbrook, CT, USA (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Connecticut (41.3° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 72.2° W)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• a pair of claw encrusted with Balanus and Recent Bryozoans (H. americanus);

Collected by Bert Stevens in 1, 1927; reposited in the AMNH

• dredged three quarters of a mile off shore from Westbrook, CT, USA (H. americanus);

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 150654: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Homarus americanus Milne Edwards 1837 clawed lobster