Fazenda Paty, Riachuelo Fm, Sergipe Basin, PC0703992 (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 8.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Riachuelo Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. J. Woelkerling, B. Granier, and D. Dias-Brito. 2014. Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland. Notebooks on Geology 14(7) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157860: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Heydrichia ? poignantii Woelkerling et al. 2014
n. sp.
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Elianella elegans Pfender and Basse 1947
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Pycnoporidium sinuosum Johnson and Konishi 1960
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam