Santo Antonio (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Pernambuco, Brazil (7.5° S, 39.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 7.8° W)

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When: Romualdo Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Cavalcanti Duque and A. M. Franca Barreto. 2018. New Fossiliferous Sites of the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, Exu, Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ 41(1):5-14 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193050: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 05.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia gigas
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth
Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Ionoscopidae
Oshunia brevis
Oshunia brevis Wenz and Kellner 1986 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Calamopleurus cylindricus
Calamopleurus cylindricus Agassiz 1841 bowfin
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Vinctifer comptoni
 Ichthyodectiformes - Cladocyclidae
Cladocyclus gardneri
Cladocyclus gardneri Agassiz 1841
 Gonorhynchiformes -
Tharrhias araripis
 Anguilliformes -
Brannerion sp.
Brannerion sp. Jordan 1920 eel
 Elopiformes - Elopidae
Rhacolepis buccalis, Paraelops cearenses, Notelops brama
Rhacolepis buccalis Agassiz 1841