Ponta do Mel Formation, Potiguar Basin, PC0703998: Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Sporolithaceae
Sporolithon ? amphiroaeformis
original and current combination Archaeolithothamnium
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium sinuosum Johnson and Konishi 1960
Elianella elegans Pfender and Basse 1947
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
unclassified
Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830
Trocholinidae
Trocholina silvai
unclassified
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 4.9° South, 36.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.7° South, 10.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ponta do Mel
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:157870
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-08 08:50:18 Last modified:2014-07-08 08:50:18
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-10-08 08:50:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
51897. W. J. Woelkerling, B. Granier, and D. Dias-Brito. 2014. Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland. Notebooks on Geology 14(7) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]