Where: Brazil (8.6° S, 35.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 2.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cabo Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, silty shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. da Silva Santos. 1990. Clupeiformes e Gonorhynchiformes do Cretaceo Inferior (Aptiano) da Formacao Cabo, nordeste do Brasil. Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Clupeiformes and Gonorhynchiformes from Cabo Formation, northeastern Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 62(3):261-268 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 11.08.2006

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