"Cascudo" outcrop (Planohybodus marki type locality): Berriasian - Early/Lower Barremian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
cf. Lepitodes sp.
Tetrapoda indet. (Jaekel 1911)
Reptilia - Crocodylomorpha
Crocodylomorpha indet. (Hay 1930)
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1834)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Seabra
Coordinates: 12.3° South, 41.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° South, 7.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Berriasian - Early/Lower Barremian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 125.45000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Malhada Vermelha
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lima Campos Basin. Additional material was obtained from an unknown locality of the Missão Velha Formation of Araripe Basin.
Berriasian to lower Barremian times (Mabesoone et al., 1979).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology:"cross stratification",fine,medium sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Malhada Vermelha Formation is characterized by a cyclic sequence of siltstones that are intercalated with fine to medium sandstones with the presence of festoon cross-stratification and climbing ripples
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:ichnofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Metadata
Database number:139448
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-12 04:36:08 Last modified:2022-04-20 09:19:43
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-12 04:36:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44834. F. Pinheiro, A. E. Q. de Figueiredo, P. C. Dentzien-Dias, D. C. Fortier, C. I. Schultz and M. S. S. Viana. 2013. Planohybodus marki sp. nov., a new fresh-water hybodontid shark from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research 41:210-216 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]