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 215896: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 27.11.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Ovulites sp. Lamarck 1816 | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Marinella sp. Pfender 1939 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909 |