Ammonite Unit Cenomanian 3, Sergipe Basin: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma riograndensis
Echinoidea - Diplopodiidae
Pseudodiadema cf. macropygus
spelled with current rank as Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)
Echinoidea
Cottaldia benettiae (Koenig 1825)
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Psammechinus sp.
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus capulus
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra (Rhynchostreon) columba Lamarck 1819
synonym of Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis (Sharpe 1850)
recombined as Costagyra olisiponensis
Exogyra africana (Lamarck 1801)
recombined as Ilymatogyra africana
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea hispanica (Orbigny 1850)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula auressensis Coquand 1862
recombined as Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Eucalycoceras pentagonum (Jukes-Browne 1896)
Thomelites aff. sornayi (Porthault and Thomel 1966)
Pseudocalycoceras harpax (Stoliczka 1864)
Acanthoceras aff. jukesbrownei (Spath 1926)
Metoicoceras geslinianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringinella pinguiscula White 1887
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) carregozica
spelled with current rank as Haustator
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Pterocera (Dicroloma) aff. decussata
original and current combination Dicroloma
listed as Pterocera (Dicroloma?) aff. decussata
Chenopus (Drepanochilus) aff. costae
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 10.8° South, 37.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.4° South, 11.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cotinguiba
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Secondary lithology:dolomitic,quartzose "limestone"
Lithology description: coquinoid limestone and quartzified dolomitic limestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: A total of 604 localities in the Segripe Basin has been sampled, though the occurences can't be assigend to a specific locality
Metadata
Database number:140839
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-18 21:00:11 Last modified:2013-03-18 08:57:31
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-18 21:00:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45714. P. Bengtson. 1983. The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil. Fossil and Strata (12)1-78 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]