Where: California (32.8° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 103.2° W)
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• One specimen, showing the two chelae of a single individual, side by side; below the left palm is the greater portion of the merus, the cheliped having been bent on itself at the middle (P. subaequalis)
Collected by Marcus A. Hanna
• Holotype in University of California, 5084 [or 5024]
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 140048: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 28.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Paguristes subaequalis Rathbun 1926 hermit crab |