WP68 (MZ-PUP), between Matanzas and Pupuya: Early Miocene, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 34.0° South, 71.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.3° South, 67.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Navidad
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:concretionary lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:submarine fan
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Seccion Paleontologia, Santiago, Chile
Metadata
Database number:166364
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2015-02-10 08:31:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-10 08:31:38
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

14404.decapod 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]