Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.4° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 9.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Romualdo Formation (Santana Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: V. B. Guerrini, S. A. Matos, F. T. Fürsich, M. G. Rodrigues, F. G. Varejão, L. V. Warren, M. L. Assine and M. G. Simões. 2024. Early Cretaceous bivalves of the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research 161:105910 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235051: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Alissa Watson on 28.05.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Inversatella cearensis n. sp., Australoeocallista juazeiroi n. sp.
Inversatella cearensis n. sp.
Australoeocallista juazeiroi n. sp. | |
Bivalvia | |
Brachidontes araripensis mussel | |
Corbulomima delicata n. sp.
Corbulomima delicata n. sp. clam | |
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis White 1887 clam |