BOLETÍN DE LA SOCIEDAD GEOLÓGICA MEXICANA Vol 65, Núm.2, 2013, P. 369-372 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2013v65n2a17

Short Note

First report of penaeid (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of the Tlayúa quarry, Tepexi de Rodríguez (Puebla, Central Mexico)

Alessandro Garassino^1,*, Giovanni Pasini², Francisco J. Vega³

¹Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Paleontologia, Corso Venezia 55, I-20121 Milano, Italia.
²Via Alessandro Volta 16, I-22070 Appiano Gentile (Como), Italia.
³Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510 México, D.F., México.

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Abstract

The first penaeid from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of the Tlayúa quarry, Tepexi de Rodríguez (Puebla, Central Mexico) is here reported. The specimen has been tentatively assigned to the superfamily Penaeoidea Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1815, for the lack of main diagnostic characters. Despite the incompleteness of the body, it is the second report of penaeid from the Lower Cretaceous of Mexico, increasing the scarce knowledge about the decapod assemblage of Tepexi de Rodríguez basin.

Keywords: Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeoidea, Lower Cretaceous, Mexico.