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Decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from mass mortality Lagerstatten: Turonian (Cretaceous) of Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Rodney M. Feldmann ,
Tomas Villamil  and
Erle G. Kauffman
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
1Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
Tomas Villamil
Affiliation:
2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0250 3Present address: Advance Exploration Organization, Conoco Inc., 600 North Dairy Ashford OF 3084, Houston, TX 77079
Erle G. Kauffman
Affiliation:
2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0250 4Present address: Department of Geology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Abstract

Mass mortality surfaces and bioclastic lags in Turonian siliceous shales of the San Rafael and La Frontera formations in Colombia have yielded two species of decapod crustaceans, Opthalmoplax spinosus new species and Pinnotheres? species indeterminate, as well as one stomatopod, Sculda sp. All represent first records for the country. Remains of the swimming carcineretid crab, Opthalmoplax spinosus, in association with fish fragments and pelagic ammonites, cover mass mortality surfaces. The occurrence suggests that the high density living population of the crabs, exploiting abundant food resources in areas of topography-controlled upwelling, was periodically reduced catastrophically, perhaps by advection of toxic trace elements or by oxygen starvation. Two other taphofacies, characterized by current oriented appendage fragments and scattered skeletal elements represent normal accumulations of fossil material in the San Rafael and La Frontera formations.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 91 - 101
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