Cruzes 2, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)
Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 11.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cotinguiba Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; brown, yellow limestone
• Light brown and yellowish Laranjeiras limestones with abundant bivalves
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. Seeling and P. Bengtson. 1999. Cenomanian oysters from the Sergipe Basin, Brazil. Creatceaous Research 20:747-765 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140982: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013
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Taxonomic list
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| Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster | |