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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Neithea (Neithea) hispanica Orbigny 1850 scallop |