Davis Landing, right bank, Peedee River (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
Ophthalmoplax stephensoni n. gen. n. sp. Rathbun 1935 crab