Serra do Mãozinha (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

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

• "fine-grained siliciclastic rocks"
• "concretion bearing 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
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Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis White 1887 clam