Where: Brazil (7.3° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 6.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brejo Santo Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; red claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. G. V. Melo and I. S. Carvalho. 2017. A Fauna da Formação Brejo Santo, Neojurássico da Bacia do Araripe, Brasil: Interpretações Paleoambientais. 40(3):62-74 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136382: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 27.11.2012, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur | |
Crocodyliformes indet. crocodilian | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Branchiopoda | |
Cyzicus pricei clam shrimp | |
Ostracoda | |
Darwinula cf. oblonga ostracod
Darwinula leguminella ostracod
Darwinula sp. Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod | |
Theriosynoecum pricei, Theriosynoecum uninodosa, Theriosynoecum miritiensis, Theriosynoecum quadrinodosum
Theriosynoecum pricei ostracod
Theriosynoecum uninodosa ostracod
Theriosynoecum miritiensis ostracod
Theriosynoecum quadrinodosum ostracod |