Where: Kings County, California (36.1° N, 120.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 119.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Etchegoin Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1953; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. D. Nations. 1975. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 23:1-104 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226470: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.07.2022

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