Laranjeiras 16, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Cenomanian 5 in Smith & Bengtson (Turonian 1 in Bengtson 1983, and now again considered Early Turonian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, rubbly, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Rubbly, hard, locally coquinoid Laranjeiras limestones with abundant ammonites

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 141030: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae