Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cape May Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• twenty fingers (C. sapidus); twenty-seven fingers (C. irroratus); five fingers (P. herbstii); one finger (L. emarginata); eight fingers (L. dubia);

Collected by H.G. Richards; 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 159994: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 13.08.2014

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