Also known as and 1 1/2 mi SW of Petaluma Reservoir, on right bank of creek bed
Where: Sonoma County, California (38.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 117.9° W)
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• fresh and brackish water zone
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• Chela, propodal finger impression; one specimen, showing part of the right cheliped(Paguristes)
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Collected by R. Miller in 1923
• University of California, Loc. 7027
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 140014: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 27.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Paguristes sp. Dana 1851 hermit crab |