Pedra Branca Mine, Nova Olinda (Ipubi): Aptian - Albian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
CPCA 3560 (crushed fragments of the skull, a partial lower jaw and the carapace); MN 4122-V is a cast of this material
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Ceará
Coordinates: 5.6° South, 64.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.9° South, 23.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian - Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3 - Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Araripe Formation:Ipubi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Close to the contact with the Romualdo Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Housed in the collections of the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas da Chapada do Araripe of the Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral.

"Fielding et al. (2005) briefly mentioned one turtle from bituminous shales at Mina Pedra Branca, near Nova Olinda that was identified as cf. Araripemys; according to one author (JAFGA) this is the same specimen described here" (Oliveira et al. 2011).
Metadata
Database number:132359
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-15 00:16:17 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-15 00:16:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
42633. G. R. Oliveira, A. A. F. Saraiva, H. Paula Silva, J. A. F. G. Andrade, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2011. First turtle from the Ipubi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Santana Group, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 14(1):61-66 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]