1/2 mi below Suffolk waterworks dam: Pliocene, Virginia
collected by USGS
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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Callianassa atlantica
Rathbun 1926
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Panopeidae
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Panopeus herbstii
Edwards 1834
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Nansemond |
Coordinates: | 36.7° North, 76.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° North, 75.7° West |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Yorktown | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Yorktown formation, upper part" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collectors: | USGS |
Collection method comments: one movable finger of major chela, Cat. No. 166067 (C. atlantica); one finger, Cat. No. 166075 (P. herbstii); |
Metadata
Database number: | 143592 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | S. Yost |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | decapod |
Created: | 2013-04-25 04:40:05 | Last modified: | 2022-05-12 04:23:13 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2018-04-25 04:40:05 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
45555. | decapod,fossil record | M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost] |