GTP-24-SE, 124.40 m (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.7° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Riachuelo Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts

Primary reference: M. Araujo Carvalho. 2001. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on palynological and palynofacies analyses of the Aptian-Albian succession in the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil. [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169767: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 01.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
  -
Trichodinium castanea Clarke and Verdier 1967
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Subtilisphaera senegalensis Jain and Millepied 1971
Palaeoperidinium cretaceum Lentin and Williams 1976
  -
Spiniferites "sp." Mantell 1850
Spiniferites chebca Lentin and Williams 1993
 Gonyaulacales - Goniodomaceae
? Dinopterygium "sp." Deflandre 1935
 Gonyaulacales - Ceratiaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites "sp." Potonie and Gelletich 1933
  - Blechnaceae
Pteridopsida
  -
Cyathidites "sp." Couper 1953
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Equisetosporites "sp." Daugherty 1941
Cycadopsida
 Gnetales -
Steevesipollenites "sp." Stover 1964 cycads
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Angiospermae
  -
Afropollis "sp.", "Brenneripollis peroreticulatus" = Retimonocolpites reticulatus
Afropollis "sp." Doyle et al. 1982
"Brenneripollis peroreticulatus" = Retimonocolpites reticulatus Doyle 1975