Pastos Bons: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Maranhao
Coordinates: 6.1° South, 44.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.1° South, 2.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pastos Bons
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pastos Bons Formation, Maranhao, Brazil. The Pastos Bons formation is a deposit of exclusively continental origin in the parnaiba basin.
Sequence stratigraphy, microfossils, and palynological data (Góes and Feijó 1994; Gallo 2005) indicate an Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) age for the Pastos Bons Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:117996
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Elliott
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-30 07:49:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-30 07:49:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37940. Y. Yabumoto. 2007. A New Mesozoic coelacanth from Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research 12(4):329-343 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott/M. Clapham]