Where: Brazil (10.7° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 11.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sapaucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; brown 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 141025: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana
"Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster |