Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 113.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Round Mountain Silt Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
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 226591: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Cancer (Metacarcinus) davidi" = Metacarcinus davidi, "Cancer (Glebocarcinus) allisoni" = Cancer allisoni
"Cancer (Metacarcinus) davidi" = Metacarcinus davidi Nations 1968 crab
"Cancer (Glebocarcinus) allisoni" = Cancer allisoni Nations 1975 crab |