Also known as São José de Itaborai
Where: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22.7° S, 43.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 31.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Itaboraian mammal zone, Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)
• "Late Palaeocene"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1967, 1968
• material is in the collection of the Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia of the Departmento Nacional da Produçao Mineral
Primary reference: R. Estes and M. H. Wake. 1972. The first fossil record of caecilian amphibians. Nature 239:228-231 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77193: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Xenopus romeri n. sp.
Xenopus romeri n. sp. Estes 1975 clawed frog | |
Apodops pricei n. gen. n. sp.
Apodops pricei n. gen. n. sp. Estes and Wake 1972 common caecilian |