Cruzes 16, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 9.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, quartzose dolomite

• Quartziferous, locally saccharoidal dolomites

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 126914: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 19.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Irregularia -
? Holectypoida indet.2 Duncan 1889 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cretacea Schlotheim 1813 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) hispanica1 Orbigny 1850 scallop