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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Homarus americanus Milne Edwards 1837 clawed lobster |