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 | |
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium Stimpson 1856 crab |