Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.9° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 13.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mytiloides scupini inoceramid zone, Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Prionocyclus-Forresteria ammonite zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143743: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 25.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Solarium sp." = Trochus (Solarium)
"Solarium sp." = Trochus (Solarium) top snail | |
Fasciolaria sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail | |
Mesalia sp. Gray 1847 turret shell | |