Where: San Luis Obispo County, California (35.6° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 116.5° W)

When: Monterey Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

• one specimen showing the seven segments of the abdomen, (P. adelaidensis);

Collected by Dr. M. G. Edwards of the Shell Oil Co.

• Holotype in the University of California, (P. adelaidensis);

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 140567: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.03.2013

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