Ilhas 3, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Turonian 3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone

• Locally hard and locally flaggy, cream Laranjeiras limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Bengtson, S. Bengtson in 1971-1972

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and P. Bengtson. 1991. Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil. Fossils and Strata 31:1-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195722: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
? Prionocidaris sp.
? Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863 pencil urchin