UCLA 2411, San Quintin Bay (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (30.5° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 115.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.P. Popenoe in 1949; 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 226597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium
"Cancer (Romaleon) antennarius" = Romaleon antennarium Stimpson 1856 crab