Where: Spain (41.2° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 0.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Villa de Vés Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• The crab-bearing level corresponds to the Villa de Vés Formation. This unit is frequently attributed to either the Utrillas Formation or as a mere member of the overlying Picofrentes Formation (Peyrot et al., 2012, p. 27; F. Barroso-Barcenilla, pers. com., 2014). It contains marine fauna of bivalves, gastropods, echinoids, and the ammonite Vascoceras gamai Choffat, 1898, whose Zone represents the upper part of the late Cenomanian, just below the Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) subconciliatus Zone which marks the end of Cenomanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museu de Geologia de Barcelona (MGB)

Primary reference: À Ossó. 2016. Eogeryon elegius n. gen. and n. sp.(Decapoda: Eubrachyura: Portunoidea), one of the oldest modern crabs from late Cenomanian of the Iberian Peninsula. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 68(2):231-246 [M. Clapham/J. Fearon/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226411: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2022

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