Shark teeth from Pirabas Formation (Lower Miocene), northeastern Amazonia, Brazil [PDF]
The shark fauna (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) of Pirabas Formation is one of the most representative and diversified of the Neogene of South America.
Sue Anne Regina Ferreira Costa +3 more
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Early Miocene aequipectininin bivalves of the Pirabas Formation of the Pará State, northeastern Brazil [PDF]
A taxonomic revision of the Tribe Aequipectini from the upper Burdigalian, Lower Miocene Pirabas Formation in Brazil) resulted in an identification of Leptopecten daideleus comb.
María Belén Santelli +3 more
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Geology and paleontology of the reef facies of the Pirabas Formation (Early Miocene) [PDF]
This work concerns with the detailed geological and paleontological study of the reef facies of the Pirabas Formation, that outcrop at the Maçarico beach, of Salinópolis district, Pará State, as a small, isolated and lenticular sedimentary bodie ...
Vladimir de Araújo Távora +2 more
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The Pirabas Formation (Early Miocene from Brazil) and the Tropical Western Central Atlantic Subprovince [PDF]
The Neogene Tropical Western Central Atlantic-South American faunal assemblage from the Pirabas Formation (Early Miocene) has specific and unique features, which distinguishes it from the rest of the Proto-Caribbean Subprovince in diversity ...
Orangel Aguilera Socorro +1 more
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Neogene sharks and rays from the Brazilian 'Blue Amazon'. [PDF]
The lower Miocene Pirabas Formation in the North of Brazil was deposited under influence of the proto-Amazon River and is characterized by large changes in the ecological niches from the early Miocene onwards.
Orangel Aguilera +12 more
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New records of the Bryozoan Metrarabdotos from the Pirabas Formation (Lower Miocene), Pará State, Brazil [PDF]
The Pirabas Formation in Pará State, Brazil, contains a very rich and diverse fauna of Early Miocene age, including several groups of invertebrates and vertebrates. Previous studies of bryozoans from Brazil included two species of Metrarabdotos ones, but
Kamil Zágoršek
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New occurrence of sirenians in the Pirabas Formation (Miocene), Pará, Brazil
A presente nota trata de uma nova ocorrência de fósseis de sirênios na Formação Pirabas, localizada na Praia de Fortalezinha, município de Maracanã, Pará, Brasil.
Heloísa Maria Moraes-Santos +2 more
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The Pirabas Formation of Early Miocene age represents the final stage of the central western Atlantic carbonate platform in northeastern South America, predating the emplacement of the Amazon delta system.
Orángel Aguilera, Werner Schwarzhans
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The genus Perissocytheridea Stephenson, 1938 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) and evidence of brackish water facies along the Oligo-Miocene, Pirabas Formation, eastern Amazonia, Brazil [PDF]
Abstract Perissocytheridea Stephenson is characteristic of brackish water facies. In 57 samples from the Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene, from five localities, Pirabas Formation, Para State, Brazil eleven species have been identified. Among these species, four are new reports: Perissocytheridea punctoreticulata n.
A. A. E. Nogueira, M. I. Ramos
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The Pirabas Formation (early to middle Miocene) from the equatorial margin of North Brazil is characterized by a shallow-marine carbonate platform with high fossil diversity and abundant micro- and macrofossil remains.
Bruna Borba Dias +2 more
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