IGM-3557, Zoquiapa: Campanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae
Vega et al. 2010
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Etyidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Guerrero
Coordinates: 17.6° North, 99.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 68.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mexcala
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Campanian age based on several species of gastropods and bivalves.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown lithified siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: UNAM
Metadata
Database number:126150
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Johnson, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-03-31 01:05:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-31 01:05:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
40983.decapod R. H. B. Fraaije, F. J. Vega, B. W. M. Bakel and L. M. Garibay-Romero. 2006. Late Cretaceous dwarf decapods from Guerrero, southern Mexico and their migration patterns. Contributions to Zoology 75(3/4):121-132 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson]

Secondary references:

42913decapod F. J. Vega, T. Nyborg, G. Kovalchuk, F. Etayo, J. Luque, A. Rojas-Briceño, P. Patarroyo, H. Porras-Múzquiz, A. Armstrong, H. Bermúdez, and L. Garibay. 2010. On some Panamerican Cretaceous crabs (Decapoda: Raninoida). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 62(2):262-279 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]