Retiro 26, Votorantim quarry, 10,1m: Early/Lower Turonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus cretaceus Agassiz 1839
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Vascoceratidae indet. Douvillé 1912
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides goppelnensis
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:10,1 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:143065
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-19 04:31:47 Last modified:2013-04-18 13:31:47
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-19 04:31:47
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]