Rio do Carmo, Mossoró (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (5.5° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 15.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jandaíra Formation, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Repository: Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and USNM

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 195883: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin