Mossoró-03, Potiguar basin (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (5.3° S, 37.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 13.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jandaíra Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. L. de Castro Manso. 2006. Primeiro registro de Goniasteridae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) no Cretaceo do Brasil: Turoniano da Bacia Potiguar. Geociências 25(2):255-260 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98673: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 18.10.2010, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Apodichelys lucianoi n. gen. n. sp.
Apodichelys lucianoi n. gen. n. sp. Price 1954 sideneck turtle
DGM 418-R, steinkern
Echinoidea
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster texanum heart urchin
Mecaster fourneli Agassiz and Dessor 1847 heart urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Petalobrissus cubensis Weisbord 1934 sand dollar
Petalobrissus aff. setifensis Coquand 1866 sand dollar
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
? Crateraster sp. Spencer 1913 sea star
One arm fragment
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
"Tudicla (Pyropsis) sp." = Pyropsis
"Tudicla (Pyropsis) sp." = Pyropsis Conrad 1860 snail