Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 74.2° W)
When: Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• merus, carpus, and chela (X. sternbergi);
Collected by Charles H. Sternberg; reposited in the USNM
• Xandarocarcinus sternbergi, holotype, Cat. No. 73390 (USNM)
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 139649: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 15.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Xandarocarcinus sternbergi | |
Xandarocarcinus sternbergi Rathbun 1926 |