Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (26.9° N, 113.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 100.0° W)
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When: Bateque Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN (La Paz)
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, G. González-Barba, R. M. Feldmann and D. A. Waugh. 2005. Decapoda (Thalassinidea and Paguroidea) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Systematics, cuticle microstructure, and paleoecology. Annals of Carnegie Museum 74(4):275-293 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 58662: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 17.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prehepatus mexicanus Schweitzer et al. 2006 crab
Cyclodorippoidea indet. Ortmann 1892 crab | |
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Paracorallicarcinus tricarinatus Schweitzer et al. 2006 crab | |
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Calappilia hondoensis Rathbun 1930 box crab | |
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