Ventura County (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Ventura County, California (34.3° N, 119.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 118.0° W)

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• One left immovable finger of a large specimen

Collected by Louis N. Waterfall

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 139725: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 16.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer productus Randall 1839 crab