Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Procambarus (Austrocambarus) primaevus (Packard)
Cambarus primaevus Packard, 1880:222; 1881a:832; 1881b:391.
Cambarus primoevus.—Villalobos, 1955:14 [erroneous spelling].
Procambarus (Austrocambarus) primaevus.—Feldmann et al., 1981:794, pls. 2, 3.
TYPES.—Neotype, AMNH 42675 (male).
TYPE LOCALITY.—Green River beds (Eocene) of western Wyoming in “the fish beds of the Bear River Valley, situated from 75 to 100 miles [120 to 160 km] a little west of north of Evanston, Wyo., and near the Utah line” (Packard, 1881b:391).
RANGE.—Known only from the Green River beds (Eocene) of Wyoming.
HABITAT.—Fossil lake.
- bibliographic citation
- Hobbs, Horton Holcombe, Jr. 1989. "An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda, Astacidae, Cambaridae, Parastacidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-236. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.480
