Tepetate Decapods-El Conejo (Eocene to of Mexico)

Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.1° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 96.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tepetate Formation, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; intraclastic, silty sandstone

• greenish sandstone, gray sandstone, and greenish to violet clay

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• MHN-UABCS

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzales-Barba and F. J. Vega. 2002. New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Mexican fossil decapods. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 59:1-43 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45693: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 24.11.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia hondoensis
Calappilia hondoensis Rathbun 1930 box crab
 Decapoda - Goneplacidae
? Carcinoplax sp., Amydrocarcinus dantei n. gen. n. sp.
? Carcinoplax sp. Milne-Edwards 1852 crab
Amydrocarcinus dantei n. gen. n. sp. Schweitzer et al. 2002 crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina bishopi
Lophoranina bishopi Squires and Demetrion 1992 crab
 Decapoda - Calcinidae
Dardanus cf. mexicanus
Dardanus cf. mexicanus Vega et al. 2001 hermit crab