Offshore Brazil W5 13: Ypresian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Ovulites sp. Lamarck 1816
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Marinella sp. Pfender 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Amapa
Coordinates: 3.0° North, 49.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° North, 38.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Amapa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: grainstone
Secondary lithology: packstone
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:215893
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Created:2020-11-27 13:19:18 Last modified:2020-11-27 13:19:18
Access level:the public Released:2020-11-27 13:19:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

74523. S. H. M. Sousa, D. Rossetti, T. R. Fairchild, L. Burone, M. M. Mahiques and P. Tibana. 2009. Microfacies and sequence stratigraphy of the Amapá Formation, Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazil. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280:440-455 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]