Jardim 16, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.6° S, 36.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 11.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Cenomanian 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown limestone

• Locally hard, cream to brown Laranjeiras limestones

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 141021: 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
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
? Mecaster sp. Pomel 1883 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana
"Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana" = Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster