Mucuca 5, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 144394: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Watinoceras sp. Warren 1930 ammonite
Benueites sp. Reyment 1954 ammonite
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin