Loc. Otieiro 5, Sergipe Basin [Cotinguiba Fm] (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.9° S, 37.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 14.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cotinguiba Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cotinguiba Fm, which overlies the Riachuelo Fm (Albian), and is overlain by the Calumbi Fm (K-T) AGE: Late Turonian (Bengtson et al. 2005 and Diebold and Bengtson 2007); initially assigned to the lower Coniacian (Bengtson 1983: 77; Holmer and Bengtson 1996). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local stratigraphic section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified lime mudstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but apparently shallow marine carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thick-bedded micritic limestone (lime mudstone). LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bengston

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: P. Bengston. REPOSITORY: Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MN).

Primary reference: L. E. Holmer and P. Bengtson. 2009. The first occurrence of a lingulid brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Sergipe, Brazil, with a restudy of ‘Lingula’ bagualensis Wilckens, 1905 from southern Patagonia. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:255-266 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90490: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
? Lingularia notialis n. sp.
? Lingularia notialis n. sp. Holmer and Bengtson 2009