Where: Bahia, Brazil (10.6° S, 38.4° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 9.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Marizal Formation, Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
• Tucano Basin, age based on palynomorphs
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by J. Alvarado-Ortega and P. M. Brito and crew
Collection methods: quarrying,
• DNPM, Departamento Nacional de Produc ̧a ̃o Mineral, Rio de Janeiro; UERJ- PMB, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Primary reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and P. Brito. 2009. A New Ichthyodectiform (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the Lower Cretaceous Marizal Formation, North-east Brazil. Palaeontology 53(2):297-306 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133538: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 15.09.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Ogunichthys triangularis n. gen. n. sp.
Ogunichthys triangularis n. gen. n. sp. Alvarado-Ortega and Brito 2010 |