Also known as Contendas dolostone, Piauí Formation
Where: Brazil (4.8° S, 42.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 16.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Contendas Member (Piauí Formation), Morrowan to Morrowan (323.2 - 306.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Contendas dolostone facies from the uper part of the Piauí Fm. THICKNESS: Mucambo Dolostone is 15 m thick. AGE: Middle Pennsyvanian (Morrowan-Desmoinesian). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position in unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by Anelli and others. REPOSITORY: Laboratorio de Paleontologia Sistematica at the Instituto de Geosciencias (GP/IT), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Departamento Nacional da Producao Minerall (DNPM); Companhia de Pesquisas de REcursos Minerais (CPRM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Primary reference: L. E. Anelli, A. C. Rocha-Campos, and M. G. Simoes. 2006. Pennsylvannian pteriomorphian bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil. Journal of Paleontology 80(6):1135-1141 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67802: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.12.2006, edited by Pete Wagner
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Etheripecten trichotomus Kegel and Costa 1951 scallop | |
Sanguinolites "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 clam |