Also known as Santa Teresa
Where: Alagoas, Brazil (9.8° S, 36.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 3.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morroe de Chaves Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. S. Ferreira and M. C. Langer. 2013. A pelomedusoid (Testudines, Pleurodira) plastron from the Lower Cretaceous of Alagoas, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 46:267-271 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152472: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 22.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pelomedusoides indet. Broin 1988 sideneck turtle MCP 4721PV, caudal portion of a plastron including fragments of both hyoplastra, both hypoplastra (the left incomplete), both xiphiplastra, and impressions of the right mesoplastron, the lateral edge of the right hyoplastron, and the caudal edge of the entoplastron
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