Cicero Dantes (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Bahia, Brazil (10.6° S, 38.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 6.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Marizal Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale and lithified siltstone

• These rocks with remnants of that kind of Vinctifer part of the sedimentary sequence Marizal Formation and probably the average member of this Formation which includes mainly shales, siltstones, sandstones thin and tenuous layers of limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All material that is collected is part of the paleontological collection of Section of the Division of Geology Paleontology Mineralogy of the National Department of Mineral Production of the Ministry of Mines and Energy

Primary reference: R. d.a. Silva Santos. 1990. Vinctifer longirostris Silva Santos, 1972, do Cretaceo Inferior da Formacao Marizal, Estado da Bahia, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 62(3):251-259 [M. Bell/M. Bell/M. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142435: authorized by Mark Bell, entered by Mark Bell on 11.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Vinctifer longirostris
Vinctifer longirostris Silva Santos 1972
Nos: 460-P, 462-P, 463-P, 988-P, 990-P, 538-P at all DGM-DNPM