Cangaıba 2 (CGB-02) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (13.9° S, 39.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 10.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Germania Member (Algodoes Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• Dolomitized, locally saccharoidal, vuggy and

•fossiliferous cream limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. J. Andrade, J. Seeling, P. Bengtson and W. Souza-Lima. 2004. The bivalve Neithea from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:25-38 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125770: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 22.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) alpina Orbigny 1847 scallop