Curva al Sur del Rancho San Agustin: Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Amydrocarcinus tepetate
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Baja California Sur
Coordinates: 24.2° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.2° North, 96.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tepetate
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MHN-UABCS
Metadata
Database number:45703
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:C. Schweitzer
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:decapod
Created:2004-11-25 09:34:35 Last modified:2019-07-10 16:14:38
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-25 09:34:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12077. C. E. Schweitzer and H. Karasawa. 2004. Revision of Amydrocarcinus and Palaeograpsus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) with definition of three new genera. Paleontological Research 8(1):71-86 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]

Secondary references:

12073 C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, G. Gonzales-Barba and F. J. Vega. 2002. New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Mexican fossil decapods. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 59:1-43 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]