Retiro 26, Votorantim quarry, 8,7m: Early/Lower Turonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster batnensis (Coquand 1862)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides puebloensis
Mytiloides kossmati
Mytiloides goppelnensis
Mytiloides cf. hattini
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Kamerunoceras informal sp. A Reyment 1954
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Sergipe
Coordinates: 10.8° South, 37.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.9° South, 13.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:25 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian Inoceramid zone: Mytiloides kossmati -Mytiloides mytiloides
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cotinguiba Member:Sapucari
Local section:Retiro Local bed:8,7 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: M. nodosoides - K turoniensis ammonite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:142881
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-17 21:48:55 Last modified:2013-04-17 06:48:55
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-17 21:48:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46368. E. J. Andrade. 2005. Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries. 1-155 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]