Santa Monica, in Rustic Canyon (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: California (34.0° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 117.2° W)

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Portion of right cheliped showing dorsal view of carpus and manus

Collected by D.F. Clark; reposited in the USNM

• Cat. No. 353394

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 139722: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 16.02.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Romaleon urbanus Rathbun 1917 crab
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon arnoldi Jordan 1898 white shark