"Cascudo" outcrop (Planohybodus marki type locality) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Seabra, Brazil (12.3° S, 41.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° S, 7.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Malhada Vermelha Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Lima Campos Basin. Additional material was obtained from an unknown locality of the Missão Velha Formation of Araripe Basin.

•Berriasian to lower Barremian times (Mabesoone et al., 1979).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone and fine-grained, medium sandstone

• The Malhada Vermelha Formation is characterized by a cyclic sequence of siltstones that are intercalated with fine to medium sandstones with the presence of festoon cross-stratification and climbing ripples

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Primary reference: F. Pinheiro, A. E. Q. de Figueiredo, P. C. Dentzien-Dias, D. C. Fortier, C. I. Schultz and M. S. S. Viana. 2013. Planohybodus marki sp. nov., a new fresh-water hybodontid shark from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research 41:210-216 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139448: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 12.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch