Praia 9 (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (10.8° S, 37.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 9.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sapucari Member (Cotinguiba Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, oncoidal, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Thick-bedded, more of less oncolitic, locally coquinoid, grey and brownish limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Bengston, S. Bengston in 1971-1972

Primary reference: E. J. Andrade, J. Seeling, P. Bengtson and W. Souza-Lima. 2004. The bivalve Neithea from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:25-38 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126861: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 19.04.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phalacrocidaris branneri2
Phalacrocidaris branneri2 White 1877 pencil urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Leptosalenia sergipensis2
Leptosalenia sergipensis2 White 1887 sea urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma binexilis2
Phymosoma binexilis2 White 1887 sea urchin
 Holasteroida -
cf. Pseudholaster tricarinatus2
cf. Pseudholaster tricarinatus2 Lambert 1924 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) coquandi
Neithea (Neithea) coquandi Peron 1877 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Rastellum diluvianum1
Rastellum diluvianum1 Linnaeus 1767 oyster
1Seeling and Bengtson 1999; 2Smith and Bengtson 1991