Mata 11, 43,7m: Late/Upper Turonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculosa (Sowerby 1822)
recombined as Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Mecaster fourneli (Agassiz and Dessor 1847)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus (Agassiz 1843)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna sp. Glikman 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Sergipe
Coordinates: 10.9° South, 37.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.9° South, 13.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:30 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian Inoceramid zone: Mytiloides scupini
Age range of interval:93.50000 - 89.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cotinguiba Member:Sapucari
Local section:Mata Local bed:43,7 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Subprionocyclus-Reesidites ammonite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: nodular to irregularly bedded limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:143654
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-25 18:06:56 Last modified:2013-04-25 03:06:56
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-25 18:06:56
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]