Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 97.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tepetate Formation, Eocene (55.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• from the top of the Campanile Bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original chitin

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• MHN-UABCS

Primary reference: 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. Journal of Paleontology 76(6):1-43 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45696: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 24.11.2004