Where: Washington (48.1° N, 122.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 111.9° W)
When: Clallam Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Clallam formation, lower Oligocene series, according to B.L. Clark
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Thomas T. Minor in 1873; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1916. Description of a new genus and species of fossil crab from Port Townsend, Washington. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 41:344-346 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139017: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 07.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Branchioplax washingtoniana n. gen. n. sp.
Branchioplax washingtoniana n. gen. n. sp. Rathbun 1916 crab |