P2, 5 km from Missão Velha (CE-239) (Jurassic of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (7.3° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 6.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brejo Santo Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; red claystone

• shallow lakes in flooding areas, in an arid climate, with episodic flooding events

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. G. V. Melo and I. S. Carvalho. 2017. A Fauna da Formação Brejo Santo, Neojurássico da Bacia do Araripe, Brasil: Interpretações Paleoambientais. 40(3):62-74 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 136933: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 06.12.2012, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Cyzicidae
Cyzicus pricei
Cyzicus pricei clam shrimp
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia gigas
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth