About 6 miles NW of Clewiston (Pliocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Petrochirus bouvieri Rathbun 1918 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Menippidae
Menippe nodifrons Stimpson 1862 crab