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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Protocallianassa saetosa Forster and Stinnesbeck 1987 decapod | |
Anomura indet. Milne-Edwards 1832 decapod |