Also known as NE of Long Beach, CA
Where: California (33.8° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 117.8° W)
When: Upper Member (San Pedro Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• A piece of merus of an ambulatory leg (P. tuberculata); one propodus of left cheliped at Stanford U. (M. idae); one moveable finger (H. nudus); one major movable finger (L. diegensis); two movable fingers, major and minor (L. leucomanus); 4 movable and 1 immovable finger (C. productus); 1 movable finger [this finger belonged to a larger specimen than has been recorded for Recent occurrences] (R. branneri); left immovable finger (distal two-thirds) of a large specimen (C. bellicosus); 14 arms and 2 movable fingers (R. ornata); 1 large dactylus of right cheliped (H. lineatus); one right movable and one right immovable finger (C. stephensi);
Collected by I. S. Oldroyd; reposited in the USNM
• Cat. No. 353595; C. productus (Cat. No. 353390); R. branneri (Cat. No. 353594); H. lineatus (Cat. No. 353362);
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138720: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.01.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa stephensi Rathbun 1926 decapod | |
Cancer productus Randall 1839 crab
Romaleon branneri Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Hepatus lineatus Rathbun 1898 crab | |
Mesorhoea idae Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Pyromaia tuberculata Lockington 1877 spider crab | |
Pugettia richii Dana 1851 spider crab | |
Callinectes bellicosus Stimpson 1862 warrior swimming crab | |
Lophopanopeus diegensis Rathbun 1900 crab
Lophopanopeus leucomanus Lockington 1876 crab | |
Randallia ornata Randall 1839 crab | |
Hemigrapsus nudus Dana 1851 crab | |
Polyplacophora | |
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Echinoidea | |
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