Cruzes 3, Sergipe (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Cenomanian 3, undifferentiated

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown limestone

• Hard, light brown to gray Laranjeiras limestones with abundant bivalves

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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

Primary reference: J. Seeling and P. Bengtson. 1999. Cenomanian oysters from the Sergipe Basin, Brazil. Creatceaous Research 20:747-765 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141005: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Irregularia -
Spatangoida indet.
Spatangoida indet. Agassiz 1840 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis, Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster