Station L259, island of Kambara (Miocene of Fiji)

Where: Fiji (19.0° S, 179.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 179.9° W)

When: Futuna Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; blue limestone

• "coralliferous"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1945. Decapod Crustacea. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 181 373-383 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136574: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 30.11.2012, edited by Evaline Johnson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paguridae
Pagurus dubius Noetling 1885 hermit crab
Noetling,1895
 Decapoda - Calcinidae
Dardanus mediterraneus Lorenthey 1907 hermit crab
Lorenthey, 1907
Dardanus arrosor Herbst 1796 hermit crab
Herbst, 1796
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Xanthodius kambaraensis Rathbun 1945 stone crab