Quebrada Platanal, near El Llano (Eocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.2° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Near base of sedimentary series just above basal limestone, Upper Eocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by R.E. Terry; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1937. Cretaceous and Tertiary Crabs from Panama and Colombia. Journal of Paleontology 11(1):26-28 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136136: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Aethridae
"Zanthopsis terryi n. sp." = Eriosachila terryi
"Zanthopsis terryi n. sp." = Eriosachila terryi Rathbun 1937 crab
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Callinectes declivis Rathbun 1918 swimming crab