Basalt tuffs on the Tillamook branch, 1 mi E of Wheeler, Nehalem Bay (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Oregon (45.7° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 114.1° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; tuff and volcaniclastic

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by H. Hannibal

• Stanford University (N. Pac. 229)

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 139014: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mathildellidae
Branchioplax washingtoniana Rathbun 1916 crab