On coast near Quebrada Marinero (Eocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (7.3° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 104.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Orbitoidal limestone and sandstone series, Upper Eocene

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.A. Olsson; 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 136137: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Lobocarcinus santosi n. sp. Rathbun 1937 crab