Procambarus primaevus

  • Green River Fossil
    Photographer: Dov Scher : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Crayfish Procambarus primaevus Early Eocene (50 million years ago) Fossil Lake, Wyoming Geology Specimen # PE51403 Individual Green River fossil specimens.
  • Procambaras primaevus
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Procambaras primaevus (Packard), 1880. Crayfish from the sandwich beds of FBM Locality H. Top) Side view with a head to tail body length of 61 millimeters (specimen number BMNH In. 63227). Bottom) Ventral view with a body length (excluding claws and antennae) of 62 millimeters (specimen number FMNH PE51403).
Catalog Number: PE 51403
Taxonomic Name: Procambarus primaevus
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Object Kind: Hand Specimen
Lot count: 1
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Cambaridae
Period: Paleogene
Earliest Epoch: Eocene
Formation: Green River
Member: Fossil Butte
Coordinates Available?: No
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Wyoming
County: Lincoln
Township: Kemmerer
Collector: L. Grande
EMu IRN: 2250877
Occurrence ID: 79c3d0e0-0968-4a5f-861a-12636f849fa0

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