Where: Brazil (5.3° S, 37.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 13.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jandaíra Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. L. de Castro Manso. 2006. Primeiro registro de Goniasteridae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) no Cretaceo do Brasil: Turoniano da Bacia Potiguar. Geociências 25(2):255-260 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98673: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 18.10.2010, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Asteroidea | |
| |
Echinoidea | |
Mecaster texanum heart urchin
Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin | |
Petalobrissus cubensis Weisbord 1934 sand dollar
Petalobrissus aff. setifensis Coquand 1866 sand dollar | |
Phymosoma aff. major sea urchin | |
Reptilia | |
Apodichelys lucianoi n. gen. n. sp.
| |
Gastropoda | |
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail | |
"Tudicla (Pyropsis) sp." = Pyropsis
"Tudicla (Pyropsis) sp." = Pyropsis Conrad 1860 snail |