Where: Glades County, Florida (26.8° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 80.2° W)
When: Caloosahatchee Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• "Caloosahatchee marl"
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J.C. Simpson
• Collection at Florida Geological Survey, dredged at a depth of 30 to 40 feet (P. bouvieri);
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150650: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Petrochirus bouvieri Rathbun 1918 hermit crab | |
Menippe nodifrons Stimpson 1862 crab |