Where: Colombia (5.6° N, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Gil Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• The age for the Upper San Gil Formation has been defined as Albian (Etayo-Serna et al., 1986). The section from which the specimen herein described was collected is relatively near the Albian/Cenomanian boundary.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Geológico José Royo y Gómez, Bogotá (INGEOMINAS-JCR)

Primary reference: F. J. Vega, T. Nyborg, G. Kovalchuk, F. Etayo, J. Luque, A. Rojas-Briceño, P. Patarroyo, H. Porras-Múzquiz, A. Armstrong, H. Bermúdez, and L. Garibay. 2010. On some Panamerican Cretaceous crabs (Decapoda: Raninoida). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 62(2):262-279 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133320: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 09.09.2012

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