Cruzes 9, 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, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
• Friable, locally hard,cream Laranjeiras limestones
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 141010: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Bivalvia | |
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon, Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon oyster
Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti Coquand 1862 oyster |