Northern Pacific Railway cut 100 ft E of Seattle Brewing and Malting Company (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Brewery at Georgetown, South Seattle, in section 20, township 24 N, range 4 E

Where: Washington (47.6° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 112.6° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Four specimens, University of Washington, No. 9 (old No. 3008)

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 139190: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 09.02.2013, edited by Evaline Johnson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paguridae
Pagurus manzonii Ristori 1888 hermit crab
Ristori, 1888
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Pilodius vulgaris Glaessner 1928 stone crab