Campaleo outcrop (Permian to of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (25.8° S, 49.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lontras Shale Member (Rio do Sul Formation), Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• Close-by not identical to older fish locality

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

• Varved shales with dropstones, bioturbated siltite,

•and the fossiliferous black shale with thickness of 1.10 m

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. D. Mouro, A. C. S. Fernandes, D. W. Rogerio and V. M. Fonseca. 2014. First Articulated Sponge from the Paleozoic of Brazil, and a New Organization of the Order Hemidiscosa. Journal of Paleontology 88(1):171-178 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

• The main fossils accompanying the sponges in the Lontras Shales are actino-

•pterygian fishes, bivalves, coelacanth scales, coprolites, conodont elements, inarticulate brachiopods, insects, scolecodonts, shark teeth, and fragments of wood.

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Hexactinellida
 Hemidiscosa - Hemidiscellidae
Microhemidiscia greinerti n. sp.
Microhemidiscia greinerti n. sp. Mouro et al. 2014 glass sponge