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

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