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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti Coquand 1862 oyster |