GTP-24-SE, 88.40 m (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.7° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Riachuelo Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts

Primary reference: M. Araujo Carvalho. 2001. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on palynological and palynofacies analyses of the Aptian-Albian succession in the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil. [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169753: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 01.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Equisetosporites "sp." Daugherty 1941
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Pteridopsida
  -
Cyathidites "sp." Couper 1953
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites "sp." Potonie and Gelletich 1933
  -
Verrucosisporites "sp." Potonie and Kremp 1954
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales -
Retitriletes "sp. 3" Pierce 1961 clubmoss
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Perotrilites "sp." Couper 1953 spikemoss
Gnetaceaepollenites
  -
Dinophyceae
  -
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Subtilisphaera senegalensis Jain and Millepied 1971
  -
Spiniferites "sp." Mantell 1850
 Gonyaulacales - Areoligeraceae
Circulodinium "sp." Alberti 1961
Cyclonephelium "sp." Deflandre and Cookson 1955
 Gonyaulacales - Ceratiaceae