Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 54.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Fernando Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Thought to be Miocene by Guppy (1866) but "probably upper Eocene" according to Rathbun (1919). Confirmed to be upper Eocene on the basis of benthic and planktonic foraminifera by McCabe et al. (1993).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.L. Guppy; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. In T. W. Vaughan (ed.), Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135728: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 06.11.2012
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Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Ranina porifera n. sp." = Lophoranina porifera
"Ranina porifera n. sp." = Lophoranina porifera Woodward 1866 crab |