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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
卷 28, 期 6, 页码 895-920出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.01.002
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Brazil; Araripe basin; Santana Formation; Cretaceous; Konservat Lagerstatten; geochronology
This paper is concerned with the famous fossil-bearing carbonate concretions of the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation Konservat Lagerstitten of north-east Brazil. This palaeontologically important horizon was first dated as Cretaceous by the French palaeoichthyologist Louis Agassiz on the basis of fish fossils obtained by Bavarian explorers Spix and Martins between 1817 and 1820 and Scottish botanist and explorer George Gardner between 1836 and 1841. Gardner equated the concretion level with the English Albian 'Upper Greensands' on the basis of an imagined similarity of stratigraphic sequence with that of the Isle of Wight, Southern England. Since then high precision dating of this remarkable deposit has proved elusive and the concretion-bearing part of the Santana Formation has been variously dated as early Late Cretaceous or late Early Cretaceous. Attempts at greater precision over the last 30 years have cited its age variously as Aptian, Albian or possibly Cenomanian, but few reliable data have been presented to support these dates. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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