Olinda (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Pernambuco, Brazil (8.0° S, 34.8° W: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 15.1° W)

When: Itamaraca Formation (Paraiba Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Originally given as Gramame, which underlies Maria Farinha Formation and overlies Itamaraca Formation. However, de Souza (2006) notes that this was misidentified, and that it actually is the Itamaraca. The Itamaraca sometimes intefingers with but usually locally overlies the terrestrial Beberibe. All belong to the Paraiba Group.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous siliciclastic sediments

• Calcissiliciclastica

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. E. d.e. Oliveira. 1957. Invertebrados Cretacicos do fosfato de Pernambuco. Divisao de Geologia e Mineralogia Rio de Janeiro, Boletim 172:1-29 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179815: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea azevedoi" = Bernaya (Bernaya) azevedoi
"Cypraea azevedoi" = Bernaya (Bernaya) azevedoi Oliveira 1957 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae