Alto Verde 5, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Watinoceras coloradoense ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Turonian 2a

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, white limestone

• Hard, locally nodular, cream Laranjeiras limestones with abundant bivalve and echinoids

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Bengtson, S. Bengtson in 1971-1972

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and P. Bengtson. 1991. Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil. Fossils and Strata 31:1-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195543: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma baylei Cotteay 1864 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin