Terrades (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.3° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 1.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Chronostratigraphically they are considered middle Ilerdian inage.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, argillaceous, sandy limestone

• The sedimentary environment was interpreted by Pallf (1972) as a shallow shelf facies.
• the sediments are grey to dark grey marly limestones, some what sandy, and assignable to the Sagnari Formation

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 226407: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Rosa Valdez on 06.07.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Retropluma eocenica
Retropluma eocenica Via 1959 crab