USGS 6965, Crocus Bay (Miocene to of Anguilla)

Where: Anguilla (18.2° N, 63.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anguilla Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

• Fossiliferous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.W. Vaughan in 1914; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226694: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2022

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa anguillensis n. sp. Rathbun 1919 decapod