Where: Houston County, Texas (31.3° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 86.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crockett Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Original Description: Middle Eocene: Claiborne Group: Cook Mountain Formation: Crockett Member. (Revised stratigraphy elevates the Crockett member to a formation in the Bartonian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Other fossils were collected in the Crockett, but only crustaceans are presented here.

Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1934. Decapod Crustaceans from the Middle Eocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 8(1):38-56 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43113: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 10.08.2004

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