Where: Pernacumbo, Brazil (7.5° S, 39.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 8.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Romualdo Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)
• Upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous sandstone
•with an excellent degree of preservation.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collection methods: mechanical
• Laboratório de Paleontologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Prepared with manual chisels and pneumatic engravers
Primary reference: T. Aureliano, A. M. Gilhardi, R. R. C. Duque and A. M. F. Barreto. 2014. On the occurrence of Pterosauria in Exu, Pernambuco (Lower Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin), Northeastern Brazil. Estudos Geológicos 24(2):15-27 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165422: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.01.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur | |
Anhangueridae indet. pterosaur DGEO-CTG-UFPE 7516, he distal articular surface and about two-thirds of the shaft of the left ulna
| |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth | |
Osteichthyes | |
Oshunia brevis Wenz and Kellner 1986 ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Clupeocephala indet. Patterson and Rosen 1977 | |
Cladocyclus gardneri Agassiz 1841 | |
Calamopleurus cylindricus Agassiz 1841 bowfin | |
Araripelepidotes temnurus Agassiz 1841 gar | |
Neoproscinetes penalvai Silva Santos 1970 |