Retiro 26, Votorantim quarry, 95,0m (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.8° S, 37.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.4° S, 5.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mytiloides hercynicus inoceramid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Watinoceras spp. A-B ammonite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. J. Andrade. 2005. Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries. 1-155 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143171: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 19.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae