Where: British Columbia, Canada (48.6° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 115.0° W)
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by H. Hannibal
• one specimen (B. carmanahensis) showing carapace and chelipeds, holotype, in Stanford University (N. Pac. 141); 11 specimens comprising 8 carapaces and 3 pieces of appendages (P. vulgaris)
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139011: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Branchioplax carmanahensis Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Pilodius vulgaris Glaessner 1928 stone crab |