Viracao (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Pernambuco, Brazil (7.5° S, 39.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 8.1° W)

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

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Cavalcanti Duque and A. M. Franca Barreto. 2018. New Fossiliferous Sites of the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, Exu, Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ 41(1):5-14 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193054: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 05.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Elopiformes - Elopidae
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae