Where: Agadir, Morocco (30.5° N, 9.5° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 8.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• The rare decapod crustaceans, usually poorly preserved, were discovered within a lens of grey argillaceous marls, deposited on a series of compact fossiliferous limestones containing a rich assemblage of regular echinoderms, among them Dorocidaris taouzensis Lambert 1933, ascribed to the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous). Without radiometric, sedimentologic, and biostratigraphic data, we assign with reservation the decapod crustaceans to the Cenomanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, argillaceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontological Collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano (MSNM)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, A. De Angeli, and G. Pasini. 2011. A new species of ghost shrimp (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Agadir (W Morocco). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 152(1):45-55 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127504: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.05.2012

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