Itaporanga 2, Sergipe: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Brazil
collected by P. Bengston, S. Bengtson 1971-1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Cottaldia aff. benettiae (Koenig 1825)
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Leptosalenia sergipensis (White 1887)
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Coenholectypus neocomiensis (Gras 1848)
Echinoidea - Holasteroida
cf. Pseudholaster tricarinatus (Lambert 1924)
Echinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris (d'Archiac 1835)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 11.0° South, 37.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.6° South, 11.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: Mantelliceras mantelli
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cotinguiba Member:Sapucari
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Cenomanian 1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:rubbly,brown,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Rubbly, brown-grey Pindoba limestones with blue-grey clay intercalations
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. Bengston, S. Bengtson Collection dates:1971-1972
Metadata
Database number:141026
Authorizer:M. Aberhan, M. Clapham Enterer:T. Schossleitner, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-20 22:08:53 Last modified:2018-08-16 22:49:31
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-20 22:08:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66549. A. B. Smith and P. Bengtson. 1991. Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil. Fossils and Strata 31:1-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]