Roadcut east of Ager (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ager Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Middle Lower Eocene Ager Formation (Ei3 member of Rosell & Llompart, 1988)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• The numerous broken fragments of scutellid echinoids, gastropods and bryozoans within this layer and the extremely abundant occurrence of the oyster Cubitostrea multicostata in the overlying marls suggest very shallow marine settings for these deposits.
• Irregularly cross-bedded marly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ir. M. Fraaye in 1994

• Repository: Geo Centrum Brabant

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaye. 1995. A new raninid crab, Pseudorogueus rangiferus (Decapoda, Crustacea), from the Eocene of Spain. Estudios Geológicos 51:65-67 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133110: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 02.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Pseudorogueus rangiferus n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudorogueus rangiferus n. gen. n. sp. Fraaye 1995 crab