UCLA 4853, 606 Hightree Road (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.0° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 118.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Upper Pleistocene, "Rustic Canyon Marine," loose, pebbly, fine sand overlying Timms Point Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.T. McGill in 1960; reposited in the LACM

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 226600: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium Stimpson 1856 crab