Where: Amapa, Brazil (3.0° N, 49.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 38.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Amapa Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; grainstone and packstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. H. M. Sousa, D. Rossetti, T. R. Fairchild, L. Burone, M. M. Mahiques and P. Tibana. 2009. Microfacies and sequence stratigraphy of the Amapá Formation, Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazil. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280:440-455 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215888: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 27.11.2020

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