Where: Puerto Rico (18.0° N, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 65.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Ponce Limestone Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; grainstone
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martiniez, A. Hull, R. M. Feldmann and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89476: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 24.05.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Interchlamys jacobiana Cooke 1919 scallop | |
Malacostraca | |
Eurytium granulosum n. sp.
Eurytium granulosum n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2008 crab |