Timbó 7, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 36.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Cenomanian 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Hard, coquinoid, bioturbated, grey limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Bengtson, S. Bengtson in 1971-1972

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 126842: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 18.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) hispanica Orbigny 1850 scallop