Jardim 18, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 36.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Cenomanian 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, rubbly, brown limestone

• Rubbly, hard, cream to light brown Laranjeiras limestones

Size class: macrofossils

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

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and P. Bengtson. 1991. Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil. Fossils and Strata 31:1-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126860: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 19.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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