Rosario do Catete (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.7° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 8.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Taquari Member (Riachuelo Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. J. De Figueiredo. 2009. A new marine clupeoid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 2164:21-32 [M. Bell/M. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140003: authorized by Mark Bell, entered by Mark Bell on 27.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Nolfia riachuelensis n. sp. De Figueiredo 2009 herring