Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pysht Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CM
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 1999. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Annals of Carnegie Museum 68(4):215-273 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 202281: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Macrocheira teglandi Rathbun 1926 spider crab | |
Mursia marcusana Rathbun 1926 box crab | |
Callianopsis clallamensis Withers 1924 decapod |