Jardim 19, Sergipe (Cenomanian 4) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-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, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray limestone

• Hard, locally coquinoid, cream to brown-gray Laranjeiras limestones. Weathered surfaces typically with white coating

Size class: macrofossils

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 141022: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) hispanica1
Neithea (Neithea) hispanica1 Orbigny 1850 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa, "Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana, "Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis, "Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon oyster
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis2
Mecaster batnensis2 Coquand 1862 heart urchin
1Andrade et al. 2004; 2Smith and Bengtson 1991