Generic Location (Holocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (8.8° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 79.8° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• The paper does not give any specific information on the lithology or the geologic setting of the fossils. The time frame selected is "Holocene" but it appears that the author is describing recent species as he gives no indication as to how old the specimens are. Also, some of the locations for this paper are lumped together because of the very general ways in which the locations are described. For example, "...not uncommon on the Florida Coast." Where this is done I will include the page number that can be referenced in regards to the species under the notes section of the taxonomic list. For this species the only locality information given is that "It was found at Panama..."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Stimpson. 1862. Notes on North American Crustacea. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(1):49-93 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146569: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 27.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Prionoplax spinicarpus Stimpson 1862 crab
Stimpson (pg. 60)
 Decapoda - Oziidae
Menippe obtusa crab
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 53)
 Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Persephona edwardsii crab
Stimpson (pg. 70)
Leucosilia jurinii De Saussure 1853 crab
Stimpson (pg. 69)
 Decapoda - Ocypodidae
Ocypode gaudichaudii ghost crab
Stimpson (pg. 61)
Gelasimus panamensis Stimpson 1862 fiddler crab
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 63)
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Calcinus obscurus Stimpson 1862 hermit crab
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 83-84)
Clibanarius panamensis hermit crab
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 84)
 Decapoda - Paguridae
Pagurus sinistripes hermit crab
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 82)
 Decapoda -
Aniculus elegans Stimpson 1862 decapod
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 83)
Cenobita rugosa decapod
Stimpson (pg. 82)
 Decapoda - Porcellanidae
Petrolisthes occidentalis decapod
Stimpson, 1862 (pg. 73)
Petrolisthes armatus decapod
Stimpson (pg. 73)