Where: France (43.2° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Deposits in Corbieres are several metres thick (no more than 10 m in the section from which Retropluma was recovered) and correspond to the alveoline limestones or basal Ilerdianlimestones described by Plaziat & Secretan (1971).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MGSB Museo Geologico del Seminario de Barcelona

Primary reference: P. Artal, B. W. M. Van Bakel, and J. Castillo. 2006. Retropluma Gill, 1894 (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Eocene of the eastern Pyrenees (Spain, France). Cainozoic Research 5:63-69 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226405: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Rosa Valdez on 06.07.2022

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