Where: California (32.9° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 106.8° W)
When: Eocene to Eocene (56.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• Discrepancy in reported age dates for the same collection: In front of book, it is named "Carrizo Creek, Imperial County" and says EOCENE. The same occurrence listed beneath the species is named "Carrizo Creek, Alverson Canyon, Coyote Mountain, Imperial County" and says PLIOCENE SERIES.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Five specimens of manus, two right, three left, two having the base of the fixed finger attached (C. kewana)
Collected by W.S.W. Kew
• Holotype in University of California, Loc. 55
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 140057: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 28.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa kewana Rathbun 1926 decapod |