Tortugas National Park (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Florida (24.6° N, 82.9° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 82.9° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Stimpson. 1862. Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(2):49-118 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147239: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 06.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Gecarcinidae
Gecarcinus lateralis Guérin 1832 crab
 Decapoda - Grapsidae
Grapsus maculatus Stimpson 1862 crab
 Decapoda - Atelecyclidae
"Chlorodius maculatus" = Atelecyclus
"Chlorodius maculatus" = Atelecyclus crab
 Decapoda - Eriphiidae
Eriphia gonagra Fabricius 1781 crab
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Lambrus triangulus Stimpson 1862 crab
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Achelous ordwayi swimming crab
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
"Actaea nodosa" = Actaea rufopunctata nodosa Stimpson 1860 stone crab
 Decapoda - Majidae
Thoe puella spider crab
Mithrax hispidus Herbst 1790 spider crab
"Mithrax aculeatus" = Mithrax pilosus Rathbun 1892 spider crab
Mithrax verrucosus Milne-Edwards 1832 spider crab