LACMIP 456, Rio Bravo Ranch (Miocene of the United States)

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
 Decapoda - Cancridae
"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