Short-lived “Bakevelliid-Sea” in the Aptian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil

Rodrigues MG, Matos SA, Varejão FG, Fürsich F, Warren LV, Assine ML, Simões MG (2020)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Cretaceous Research Elsevier

Book Volume: 115

Article Number: 104555

DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104555

Abstract

New Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) bakevelliid bivalves are described for the Romualdo Formation, Santana Group, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. Together with the other known member of the family Bakevelliidae, already recorded from the unit (i.e., Aguileria dissita), the new bivalves (Araripevellia musculosa gen. et sp. nov., Aguileria romualdoensis sp. nov., and Gen. et sp. indet.) indicate that the Romualdo bakevelliid fauna was more diverse than previously realized. Bakevelliid-rich carbonates, some with specimens preserved in situ, are restricted to the upper third of this unit, a stratigraphic interval yielding also echinoderm-, gastropod- and stromatolite-bearing limestones. These pteriomorphian bivalves were widely distributed in the Romualdo Formation and are a testimony of the short-lived Bakevelliid-Sea that flooded the whole Araripe Basin during the Aptian. Notably, Aguileria romualdoensis sp. nov. closely resembles Aguileria renauxiana from the Cenomanian Woodbine Formation, Texas, US. In addition, Aguileria dissita is also recorded in the upper Aptian–Albian Riachuelo Formation of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. Together with other macroinvertebrates (i.e., gastropods, echinoderms, bivalves) the bakevelliid fauna of the Romualdo Formation can be tightly correlated with that of the Riachuelo Formation, supporting a paleogeographic scenario with a marine ingression flooding the Araripe Basin from the southeast, probably via the seaway developed in the Recôncavo-Tucano basin area. Finally, sedimentologic, stratigraphic and paleontological data indicates that the fate of the bakevelliids in the Romualdo Formation was linked to the onset of continentalization of the Araripe Basin.

Authors with CRIS profile

Franz Fürsich

Involved external institutions

São Paulo State University / Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) BR Brazil (BR) Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) BR Brazil (BR)

How to cite

APA:

Rodrigues, M.G., Matos, S.A., Varejão, F.G., Fürsich, F., Warren, L.V., Assine, M.L., & Simões, M.G. (2020). Short-lived “Bakevelliid-Sea” in the Aptian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104555

MLA:

Rodrigues, M. G., et al. "Short-lived “Bakevelliid-Sea” in the Aptian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil." Cretaceous Research 115 (2020).

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