Mossoró-03, Potiguar basin: Early/Lower Turonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Rosadosoma riograndensis
Gastropoda - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Tudicla (Pyropsis) sp. Conrad 1860
spelled with current rank as Pyropsis
Reptilia - Testudines
Apodichelys lucianoi n. gen., n. sp. Price 1954
Price 1954
DGM 418-R, steinkern
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma aff. major
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Petalobrissus cubensis (Weisbord 1934)
Petalobrissus aff. setifensis (Coquand 1866)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster texanum
Mecaster fourneli (Agassiz and Dessor 1847)
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
? Crateraster sp. Spencer 1913
1 fragment
One arm fragment
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil
Coordinates: 5.3° South, 37.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.4° South, 13.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:93.50000 - 89.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jandaíra
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98673
Authorizer:L. Villier, E. Vlachos Enterer:L. Villier, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-10-18 07:20:34 Last modified:2018-08-28 23:33:45
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-18 07:20:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34041. 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]

Secondary references:

64457 I. L. Price. 1954. Um quelônio pleurodiro no calcário da Série Apodi, Cretáceo do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Rio de Janeiro: Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral / Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia. Notas Preliminares e Estudos 85:1-17 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]