Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Turonian 2b

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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

Primary reference: J. Seeling and P. Bengtson. 2003. The bivalve Pinna cretacea (Schlotheim, 1813) from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):475-480 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126909: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 19.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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