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
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 | |
Pectinifrons abyssalis Bamforth et al. 2008 Pectinate | |
Palaeophragmodictya | |
Palaeophragmodictya reticulata Gehling and Rigby 1996 | |
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958 | |
? Charniodiscus concentricus, "Charniodiscus arboreus" = Arborea arborea
? Charniodiscus concentricus Ford 1958
"Charniodiscus arboreus" = Arborea arborea Glaessner 1959 | |
Medusinites asteroides | |
Medusinites asteroides Sprigg 1949 | |
Aspidella terranovica | |
"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica, "Ediacaria flindersi" = Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872
"Ediacaria flindersi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872 | |