Where: Ceará, Brazil (5.6° S, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 34.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ipubi Formation (Araripe Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Close to the contact with the Romualdo Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. R. Oliveira, A. A. F. Saraiva, H. Paula Silva, J. A. F. G. Andrade, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2011. First turtle from the Ipubi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Santana Group, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 14(1):61-66 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132359: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•"Fielding et al. (2005) briefly mentioned one turtle from bituminous shales at Mina Pedra Branca, near Nova Olinda that was identified as cf. Araripemys; according to one author (JAFGA) this is the same specimen described here" (Oliveira et al. 2011).
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Pelomedusoides indet. Broin 1988 sideneck turtle CPCA 3560 (crushed fragments of the skull, a partial lower jaw and the carapace); MN 4122-V is a cast of this material
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