Ammonite Unit Turonian 1, Sergipe Basin: Early/Lower Turonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster jacksoni Maury 1925
synonym of Mecaster batnensis
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides sp. Brongniart 1822
Mytiloides submytiloides
Mytiloides mytiloides (Mantell 1822)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea interplicosa (Stoliczka 1871)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte similis Munster 1840
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Psilomya ligeriensis
spelled with current rank as Liopistha (Psilomya)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudoaspidoceras footeanum
original and current combination Pseudaspidoceras
Mitonia sp. Renz and Alvarez 1979
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Nannovascoceras sp. Renz and Alvarez 1979
synonym of Vascoceras
Paravascoceras hartti (Hyatt 1870)
recombined as Vascoceras harttii
Vascoceras ? globosum (Reyment 1954)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Pseudotissotia nigeriensis (Woods 1911)
Pseudotissotia gabonensis Lombard 1930
synonym of Pseudotissotia nigeriensis
Thomasites sp. Pervinquiére 1907
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pseudotissotidae
Wrightoceras sp. (Reyment 1954)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Piestochilus (Cryptorhytis) cf. thevestensis
original and current combination Cryptorhytis
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Chenopus (Helicaulax) subgibbosus
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 10.8° South, 37.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.8° South, 13.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cotinguiba
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular "limestone"
Lithology description: limestone breccia or conglomerate, flaser bedded or nodular limestone, 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:140888
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-18 23:21:56 Last modified:2013-03-18 08:57:49
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-18 23:21:56
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]