RB89, Sekiu Point (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.3° N, 124.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pysht Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 1999. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Annals of Carnegie Museum 68(4):215-273 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221307: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2021

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Mursia marcusana Rathbun 1926 box crab