Aricuru (Miocene of Brazil)

Where: Para, Brazil (0.7° S, 47.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 43.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pirabas Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Araujo Tavora, A. A. R. dos Santos, and R. N. Araujo. 2010. Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais, Belém 5(2):207-224 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112577: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Cupuladria sp. Canu and Basler 1919
 Cheilostomata - Metrarabdotosidae
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
"Nellia oculata" = Nellia tenella
"Nellia oculata" = Nellia tenella Lamarck 1816
 Cheilostomata - Steginoporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Vinculariidae
 Cheilostomata - Catenicellidae
 Cheilostomata - Pasytheidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
Idmonea sp. Lamouroux 1821
 Cyclostomata - Crisiidae
Crisia sp. Lamarck 1812
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea pennae White 1887 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica canrena" = Naticarius canrena Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dioplotherium allisoni Kilmer 1965 dugong
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863 pencil urchin
Phyllacanthus priscus pencil urchin