Where: Brazil (11.3° S, 37.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 11.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Calycoceras guerangeri ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Cenomanian 3b
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, brown limestone
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 141028: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Micropedina olisiponensis Forbes in Sharpe 1850 sea urchin |