Ammonite Unit Turonian 2, Sergipe Basin (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 13.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Cotinguiba Formation, Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• limestone breccia or conglomerate, flaser bedded or nodular limestone, dolomitic limestone, 'Laranjeireas facies', 'Pindoba facies'

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: A total of 604 localities in the Segripe Basin has been sampled, though the occurences can't be assigend to a specific locality

Primary reference: P. Bengtson. 1983. The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil. Fossil and Strata (12)1-78 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140889: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 18.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Fagesia bomba ammonite
Fagesia involuta Barber 1957 ammonite
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Kamerunoceras seitzi Riedel 1933 ammonite
Kamerunoceras turoniense d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
"Romaniceras deverianum" = Romaniceras (Romaniceras) deverianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Benueites ? sp. Reyment 1954 ammonite
Watinoceras sp. Warren 1930 ammonite
Watinoceras coloradoense Henderson 1908 ammonite
Watinoceras jaekeli Solger 1904 ammonite
Watinoceras amudariense Arkhanguelsky 1916 ammonite
Spathites (Spathites) sp. Kummel and Decker 1954 ammonite
Mitonia residei ammonite
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Coilopoceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Hoplitoides sp. von Koenen 1898 ammonite
Hoplitoides ingens von Koenen 1897 ammonite
Hoplitoides gibbosulus von Koenen 1897 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Parapuzosia sp. Nowak 1913 ammonite
Pachydesmoceras sp. Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Scalarites sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Pterocera (Dicroloma) aff. decussata" = Dicroloma, Chenopus (Helicaulax) subgibbosus
"Pterocera (Dicroloma) aff. decussata" = Dicroloma snail
listed as Pterocera (Dicroloma?) aff. decussata
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea interplicosa Stoliczka 1871 file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha alta, "Psilomya ligeriensis" = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya ligeriensis" = Liopistha (Psilomya) clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aff. esmarki Nilsson 1827 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia pauli Coquand 1862 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin