Sitio Joao (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Ceara, Brazil (7.5° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 7.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Santana Group, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1961

Primary reference: R. d.a. Silva Santos. 1971. Nouveau genre et Espece d'Elopidae du Bassin Sedimentaire de la Chapada do Araripe. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 43(2):439-442 [M. Bell/M. Bell/M. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142447: authorized by Mark Bell, entered by Mark Bell on 11.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Elopiformes - Elopidae
Paraelops cearensis Silva Santos 1971
Nos: 732-P, 734-P, 735-P, 971-P DGM-DNPM