ammonites

Chapada do Araripe: Albian, Brazil

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Cearį
Coordinates: 7.2° South, 39.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.5° South, 11.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:112.0 - 99.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Araripe Formation:Santana Member:Romualdo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of Romualdo Member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "limestone concretion"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cearadactylus ligabuei holotype site
Database number:92290
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:ETE,vertebrate
Created:2009-11-05 00:29:50 Last modified:2009-11-05 00:29:50
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-05 00:29:50
Reference information
Primary reference:
31100 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1993. Cearadactylus? ligabuei nov. sp., a new early Cretaceous (Aptian) pterosaur from Chapada do Araripe (Northeastern Brazil). Bollettino della Societą Paleontologica Italiana 32(3):401-409 [R. Butler/R. Butler]