Monte Orobe quarry MEC dup (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Basque, Spain (42.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 2.3° E)

When: Albaniz Member (Eguino Formation), Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• All localities are characterized by reef lime- stones containing mainly corals, algae, orbitolinid foraminifera, echinoid spines, sponges, brachiopods, bivalves, and decapod crustaceans.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Klompmaker, R. M. Feldmann, C. M. Robins and C. E. Schweitzer. 2012. Peak diversity of Cretaceous galatheoids (Crustacea, Decapoda) from northern Spain. Cretaceous Research 36:125-145 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138814: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 28.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paragalatheidae
Paragalathea multsiquamata decapod
Via Boada, 1981
 Decapoda - Catillogalatheidae
"Paragalathea ruizi" = Vasconilia ruizi, "Paragalathea straeleni" = Vasconilia straeleni
"Paragalathea ruizi" = Vasconilia ruizi Van Straelen 1940 decapod
van Straelen, 1940
"Paragalathea straeleni" = Vasconilia straeleni Ruiz de Gaona 1943 decapod
Ruiz de Gaona, 1943