Where: Florence County, South Carolina (34.0° N, 79.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.3° N, 45.4° W (Wright 2013)
When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one left chela (O. stephensoni);
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
• one left chela, Cat. No. 73794 (O. stephensoni);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142530: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 13.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Ophthalmoplax stephensoni n. gen. n. sp.
Ophthalmoplax stephensoni n. gen. n. sp. Rathbun 1935 crab |