USGS 6010, north of Pedro Miguel locks (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Culebra Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• lower Culebra Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• "dark clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.F. Donald, T.W. Vaughan in 1911; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207015: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.12.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Mursia obscura n. sp.
Mursia obscura n. sp. Rathbun 1918 box crab
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Carpilius sp.
Carpilius sp. Desmarest 1823 crab