Judkins Ridge, near Eugene (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Oregon (44.0° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 113.3° W)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Oscar Gorrell in 1897 or 1898; reposited in the 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 140004: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 27.02.2013, edited by J Fearon

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• P. gorrelli: One specimen, male, holotype (Cat. No. 352912)
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa spp. Leach 1814 decapod
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninoides eugenensis Rathbun 1926 crab
 Decapoda - Homolodromiidae
Palehomola gorrelli Rathbun 1926 crab