Timbó 4, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 36.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Cenomanian 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray limestone

• Hard, coquinoid brown-gray Laranjeiras limestones with abundant burrows

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by P. Bengtson, S. Bengtson in 1971-1972

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 141015: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
Tetragramma deshayesi
Tetragramma deshayesi Cotteau 1864 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa, "Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon, Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti, Curvostrea rouvillei
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon oyster
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster