Retiro 26, Votorantim quarry, 9,7m: Early/Lower Turonian, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Vascoceratidae
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Vascoceratidae indet.
Douvillé 1912
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Cretoxyrhinidae
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Cretoxyrhina sp.
Glikman 1958
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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: | 9,7 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: M. nodosoides - K turoniensis ammonite zone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | bioturbation,hardground 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: | 143064 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2013-04-19 04:30:42 | Last modified: | 2013-04-18 13:30:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-19 04:30:42 |
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] |