Fortuna 1, Riachuelo Formation, Sergipe basin (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 7.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Angico Member (Riachuelo Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; white, silty sandstone and pebbly, quartzose conglomerate

• silty, pale-cream sandstone with rocky and pebbly quartzose conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. H. Hessel. 2005. Anditrigonia britoi n.sp. (Bivalvia) do Eo-Albiano de Sergipe, Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(3):437-450 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142311: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae