Where: Costa Rica (9.9° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 82.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Banano Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Ninth fossiliferous zone below the uppermost one of the section. "Probably equivalent to Gatun formation." (More likely from the Rio Banano Formation, given the location)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by D.F. MacDonald in 1911
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226678: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Euphylax callinectias n. sp.
Euphylax callinectias n. sp. Rathbun 1918 swimming crab |