Cajaiba 5, Sergipe (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 13.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis waltersdorfensis–C. deformis erectus zones inoceramid zone, Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bioturbated, white limestone

• cream, massive to irregularly bedded limestone, locally lightly bioturbated

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 144393: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Didymotis costatus
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis, Cremnoceramus deformis
Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis clam
Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis waltersdorfensis
Cremnoceramus deformis Meek 1871 clam
Cremnoceramus deformis erectus
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Hauericeras sp.
Hauericeras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite