Where: Washington (47.3° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 112.5° W)
When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• One specimen and impression, also one palm (M. alaskensis)
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: (N. Pac. 207) University of California
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 139889: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Megokkos alaskensis Rathbun 1926 crab |