Contra Fogo Farm. 190 m (Ediacaran of Brazil)

Where: Ceará, Brazil (4.0° S, 40.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea zone, Contra Fogo Sandstone Formation, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, red, silty sandstone

• fine/silty, reddish, micaceous sandstone, plane parallel lamination and ripples

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: F. R. G. Barroso, M. S. S. Viana, M. F. Lima Filho and S. M. O. Agostinho. 2014. First Ediacaran fauna occurrence in northeastern Brazil (Jaibaras Basin, ?Ediacaran-Cambrian): Preliminary results and regional correlation. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 86(3):1029-1042 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 236885: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.11.2024

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Eumetazoa
 Rangeomorpha -
Pectinifrons abyssalis Bamforth et al. 2008 Pectinate
Palaeophragmodictya
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Palaeophragmodictya reticulata Gehling and Rigby 1996
 Bilaterialomorpha -
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958
 Arboreomorpha -
? Charniodiscus concentricus, "Charniodiscus arboreus" = Arborea arborea
"Charniodiscus arboreus" = Arborea arborea Glaessner 1959
Medusinites asteroides
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Aspidella terranovica
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"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica, "Ediacaria flindersi" = Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872
"Ediacaria flindersi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872
 Ichnofossils -
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873