Les Clotes, Vilafranca del Penedès (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 0.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• The sediments containing crustaceans at this locality correspond to the Langhian transgression (Middle Miocene).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, gray, yellow claystone

• According to the lithology, associated fauna, and location within the basin appears to be characteristic of open but shallow marine environmental conditions.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museu Geologic del Seminari Conciliar of Barcelona (MGSB)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, P. Artal, and G. Pasini. 2009. Upogebia miocenica n. sp. (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Upogebiidae) from the Miocene of Catalonia (Spain). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 150(1):61-68 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127502: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Upogebiidae
Upogebia miocenica n. sp.
Upogebia miocenica n. sp. Garassino et al. 2009 mud shrimp