Ze Gomes (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Pernacumbo, Brazil (7.5° S, 39.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 8.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Romualdo Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• Upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous sandstone

• a sequence of calciferous sandstones, shales and marls. It is worthy to note that the occurrence of calciferous concretions encloses fossils, mostly vertebrates,

•with an excellent degree of preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: mechanical

• Laboratório de Paleontologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Prepared with manual chisels and pneumatic engravers

Primary reference: T. Aureliano, A. M. Gilhardi, R. R. C. Duque and A. M. F. Barreto. 2014. On the occurrence of Pterosauria in Exu, Pernambuco (Lower Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin), Northeastern Brazil. Estudos Geológicos 24(2):15-27 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165422: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.01.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Pterosauria -
 Pterosauria - Anhangueridae
Anhangueridae indet. pterosaur
DGEO-CTG-UFPE 7516, he distal articular surface and about two-thirds of the shaft of the left ulna
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Calamopleurus cylindricus Agassiz 1841 bowfin
 Lepisosteiformes -
Araripelepidotes temnurus Agassiz 1841 gar
 Elopiformes - Elopidae
 Teleostei -
Clupeocephala indet. Patterson and Rosen 1977
 Gonorhynchiformes -
 Ichthyodectiformes - Cladocyclidae
Cladocyclus gardneri Agassiz 1841
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Neoproscinetes penalvai Silva Santos 1970
Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Ionoscopidae
Oshunia brevis Wenz and Kellner 1986 ray-finned fish