Also known as Late Eifelian/Give. Loc. 21 of Melo: Picos region
Where: Piaui, Brazil (7.1° S, 41.7° W: paleocoordinates 75.4° S, 7.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pimenteira Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• Collection not explicitly said to come from Cabecas Fmn., but this seems rather clear from stratigraphic and geographic context. PJW: Caputo & dos Santos (2020) note that this is now Pimenteira formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
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 37170: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.03.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea, ? Pustulatia sp.
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846
? Pustulatia sp. Cooper 1956 | |
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Mutationellinae "indet. D" Cloud 1942 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea "gen.nov. C"" = Chonetoidea, "Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea "gen.nov. C"" = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
Plectonotus sp. Clarke 1899 snail | |
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma Conrad 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Cimitaria sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
? Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam | |
Eurypterida | |
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid | |
Trilobita | |
Metacryphaeus meloi Carvalho et al. 1997 trilobite | |
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |