Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Pedro Sand Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Saugus Formation(?) in Nations (1975), and upper Fernando Formation in UCMP database. Now mapped as San Pedro Sand.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.O. Nomland, E.M. Butterworth in 1917; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. D. Nations. 1975. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 23:1-104 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226460: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.07.2022

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