North bank of Columbia River, 3/4 mi NE of Knappton (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.3° N, 123.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.0° N, 108.6° W (Wright 2013)

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Two specimens of major right manus, one with its propodal finger (holotype), both embedded in nodules (C. knapptonensis);

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: Holotype in California Academy of Sciences (175), C. knapptonensis

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 140190: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 05.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa knapptonensis Rathbun 1926 decapod