Algarrobo (Estratos de Quebrada Municipalidad) (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Chile (33.4° S, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 59.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone and conglomerate

• "40 m of fine massive sandstone and scarce conglomerate."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• SGO.I.

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, A. Encinas and M. Suarez. 2006. New Cretaceous and Eocene Callianassoidea (Thalassinidea, Decapoda) from Algarrobo, Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1):73-81 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64833: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 17.09.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Protocallianassa saetosa Forster and Stinnesbeck 1987 decapod
 Decapoda -
Anomura indet. Milne-Edwards 1832 decapod