WP63 (BP), Boca Pupuya (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (34.0° S, 71.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 66.4° 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, massive sandstone

• Sandstone underlying a conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• 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 53474: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 09.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Aethridae
Hepatus spinimarginatus Feldmann et al. 2005 crab