Where: Maranhao, Brazil (6.1° S, 44.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 12.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pastos Bons Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 152.1 Ma)

• Pastos Bons Formation, Maranhao, Brazil. The Pastos Bons formation is a deposit of exclusively continental origin in the parnaiba basin.

•Sequence stratigraphy, microfossils, and palynological data (Góes and Feijó 1994; Gallo 2005) indicate an Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) age for the Pastos Bons Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, gray, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. Yabumoto. 2007. A New Mesozoic coelacanth from Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research 12(4):329-343 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 30.09.2011

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