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, gray limestone
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 141008: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Tetragramma deshayesi Cotteau 1864 sea urchin | |
Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon, Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti, "Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) flabellata" = Ceratostreon oyster
Rhynchostreon (Rhynchostreon) mermeti Coquand 1862 oyster
"Exogyra (Costagyra) olisiponensis" = Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster |