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

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Collection methods: 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 166364: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
? Calappilia chilensis n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2005 box crab
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Pilumnus cucaoensis Feldmann et al. 2005 crab
 Decapoda - Macropipidae
Proterocarcinus navidad Feldmann et al. 2005 crab