Mucambo Farmstead, Near the José de Freitas village (Carboniferous to of Brazil)

Also known as Mucambo Dolostone, Piauí Formation

Where: Brazil (4.7° S, 42.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mucambo Member (Piauí Formation), Morrowan to Morrowan (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Mucambo Dolostone facies from the uper part of the Piauí Fm. THICKNESS: Mucambo Dolostone is 15 m thick. AGE: Middle Pennsyvanian (Morrowan-Desmoinesian). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position in unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal dolomite

• SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT: Beds document a period of sea-level rise and resulting transgression, when a large carbonate and evaporite platform developed.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dolostone with shell pavements. LITHIFICATION: Lithified based on facies description and taphonomic condition (all specimens are molds).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by Anelli and others. REPOSITORY: Laboratorio de Paleontologia Sistematica at the Instituto de Geosciencias (GP/IT), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Departamento Nacional da Producao Minerall (DNPM); Companhia de Pesquisas de REcursos Minerais (CPRM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Primary reference: L. E. Anelli, A. C. Rocha-Campos, and M. G. Simoes. 2006. Pennsylvannian pteriomorphian bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil. Journal of Paleontology 80(6):1135-1141 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67801: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.12.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Only includes specimens that are specified (in figures) to belong this member (facies), although others are mentioned in the text as belonging to the formation. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species level and subgenus designations.
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
? Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
? Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Septimyalina perattenuata Meek and Hayden 1858 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Pindorama nordestina n. sp. Anelli et al. 2006 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten trichotomus Kegel and Costa 1951 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
? Caneyella sp. Girty 1910 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
? Aviculopinna peracuta Shumard and Swallow 1858 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Chaenomyidae
Chaenomya caatingaensis n. sp.1 Anelli et al. 2009 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Exochorhynchus buriti n. sp.1 Anelli et al. 2009 clam
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Carnauba oiticica n. gen. n. sp.1
Carnauba oiticica n. gen. n. sp.1 Anelli et al. 2009 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pleurophorella parnaibaensis1 Anelli et al. 2009 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites "sp. 1"1 M'Coy 1844 clam
Sanguinolites "sp. 2"1 M'Coy 1844 clam
Wilkingia terminalis1 Hall 1852 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella subquadrata1 Girty 1909 clam
Astartella cf. concentrica1 Conrad 1842 clam
 Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
Oriocrassatella piauiensis n. sp.2 Anelli et al. 2012 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus alpinus1 Hall 1858 clam
Schizodus ulrichi1 Worthen 1890 clam
Schizodus acuminatus1 Hoare et al. 1978 clam
Schizodus cf. wyomingensis1 Newell and Boyd 1975 clam