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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Florideophyceae | |
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Rhodophyceae | |
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 |