UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well: Piacenzian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer granti n. sp. Rathbun 1932
recombined as Metacarcinus granti
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Orange
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 117.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 116.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pico
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ?Pico formation, 3150 feet depth
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Database number:135994
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:S. Yost
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-11-14 04:23:29 Last modified:2022-07-16 15:22:33
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-14 04:23:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43498.decapod,fossil record M. J. Rathbun. 1932. A new species of Cancer from the Pliocene of the Los Angeles basin. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 22(1):19 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

52667decapod J. D. Nations. 1975. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 23:1-104 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]