RB-32, Kydikabbit Point (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as RB32

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.4° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 112.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hoko River Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Rau (1964) studied the benthic foraminiferal fauna of the Hoko River Formation (then known as the lower member of the Twin River Formation) and assigned the formation to the northeastern Pacific provincial benthic foraminiferal upper Narizian Stage (late Eocene).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, concretionary siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by R.E. Berglund; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. New fossil portunids from Washington, USA, and Argentina and a re-evaluation of generic and family relationships within the Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology 74(4):636-653 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202365: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.07.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Ctenochelidae
Ctenocheles hokoensis n. sp.5 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 decapod
 Decapoda - Callianopsidae
Callianopsis inornatus n. sp.5 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 decapod
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Brecanclawu rathbunae n. gen. n. sp.5
Brecanclawu rathbunae n. gen. n. sp.5 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 decapod
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Anisospinos berglundi n. sp.3 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000 crab
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
"Portunites nodosus n. sp." = Portunites nodosa
"Portunites nodosus n. sp." = Portunites nodosa Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000 crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Mursia aspina n. sp.4
Mursia aspina n. sp.4 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000 box crab
 Decapoda - Mathildellidae
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
Carinaranina marionae n. sp.6, "Lyreidus alseanus" = Macroacaena alseanus1
Carinaranina marionae n. sp.6 Tucker 1998 crab
"Lyreidus alseanus" = Macroacaena alseanus1 Rathbun 1932 crab
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Paguristes hokoensis n. sp.5 Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 hermit crab