Where: Chile (34.0° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 66.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Navidad Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, concretionary sandstone and lithified, concretionary siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

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

• Repository: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Seccion Paleontologia, Santiago, Chile

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and A. Encinas. 2005. New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(3):427-449 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53475: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 09.09.2005

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