Where: Piaui, Brazil (7.4° S, 42.0° W: paleocoordinates 81.1° S, 4.7° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pimenteira Formation, Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)
• Stratigraphy comments: Collection not explicitly said to come from Pimenteira Fmn., but this seems rather clear from stratigraphic and geographic context. "Although the age of the [Pimenteira Fm.] is probably restricted to the Middle Devonian along the eastern outcrop belt [of which this locality is a part] its full range is Emsian through Famennian in the subsurface of central portions of the basin."
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone
Primary reference: J. H. G. Melo. 1988. The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil. N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass, eds. Devonian of the World, Volume I. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 669-703 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37120: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Spirophyton sp. Hall 1863 |