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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa knapptonensis Rathbun 1926 decapod |