Where: Spain (42.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• The new material described here is considered to be of late Albian age, following stratigraphic interpretations by López-Horgue et al. (1996; see also López-Horgue et al., 1999). It must be stressed that the exact stratigraphic ranges of decapod crustacean species recorded from Monte Orobe are still poorly known; compared to occurrences elsewhere, some species made their first appearance in the upper Albian, and ranged upwards into the lower Cenomanian. New fieldwork at Monte Orobe is needed to document the ranges in more detail.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Van Straelen

• Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels (IRScNB)

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaije, B. W. M. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt and P. Artal. 2008. New decapod crustaceans (Anomura, Brachyura) from mid-Cretaceous reefal deposits at Monte Orobe (Navarra, northern Spain), and comments on related type-Maastrichtian material. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre 78:193-208 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126556: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 07.04.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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