Also known as Late Emsian/Eifelian Loc. 20 of Melo: Pimenteiras region
Where: Piaui, Brazil (6.3° S, 41.4° W: paleocoordinates 76.3° S, 9.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Pimenteira Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• Collection not explicitly said to come from Pimenteira Fmn., but this seems rather clear from stratigraphic and geographic context: "Although the age of the [Pimenteira Fm.] is probably restricted to the Middle Devonian along the eastern outcrop belt [of which this locality is a part] its full range is Emsian through Famennian in the subsurface of central portions of the basin."; PJW: Carvalho et al. (1997) place this as Eifelian & note that it is the base of the formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. H. G. Melo. 1988. The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil. N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass, eds. Devonian of the World, Volume I. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 669-703 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37129: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.03.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. Miller 1820 jellyfish | |
Ostracoda | |
? Kloedenia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Metacryphaeus kegeli n. sp.
Metacryphaeus kegeli n. sp. Carvalho et al. 1997 trilobite | |
Burmeisteria sp. Salter 1865 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
? Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Mutationellinae "indet. B" Cloud 1942 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |