Companhia National de Cimento Portland Quarry: Late Paleocene - Early Eocene, Brazil
collected 1967, 1968

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Caeciliidae
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pipidae
Estes 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio de Janeiro
Coordinates: 22.7° South, 43.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.4° South, 28.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene - Eocene
Stage: Thanetian - Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1 - Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Late Paleocene - Early Eocene Mammal zone:  Itaboraian
Age range of interval: 59.24 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Late Palaeocene"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: "freshwater limestone"
Environment:fissure fill
Geology comments: "fissures"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1967, 1968
Collection method comments: material is in the collection of the Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia of the Departmento Nacional da Produçao Mineral
Metadata
Also known as:São José de Itaborai
Database number:77193
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-12-29 19:36:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-12-29 19:36:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31062. R. Estes and M. H. Wake. 1972. The first fossil record of caecilian amphibians. Nature 239:228-231 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

26129 R. Estes. 1975. Xenopus from the Palaeocene of Brazil and its zoogeographic importance. Nature 254:48-50 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]