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: Sapaucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, yellow limestone
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 141023: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Curvostrea rouvillei Coquand 1862 oyster |