Where: South Australia, Australia (34.8° S, 137.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 132.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blanche Point Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• base of the Blanche Point Formation (="Transitional Marl"). Planktonic foraminiferal zone 15
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37720: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Panopeus whittenensis" = Pakicarcinus whittenensis
"Panopeus whittenensis" = Pakicarcinus whittenensis Glaessner 1980 crab |