Mucuri 7, Sergipe (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.9° S, 37.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 14.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, white, yellow, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Massive, cream to yellowish Laranjeiras limestones with chert nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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

Primary reference: J. Seeling and P. Bengtson. 2003. The bivalve Pinna cretacea (Schlotheim, 1813) from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):475-480 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126912: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 19.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus sp.1 Cope 1869 mosasaur
MN 6941-V, isolated marginal tooth-crown
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster fourneli2 Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cretacea Schlotheim 1813 oyster