UNIVERSIDADE NACIONAL TIMOR LOROSA’E

FACULDADE ENGENHARIA CIÊNCIA E TECNÓLOGIA

DEPARTAMENTO GEOLOGIA E PETRÓLEO
DISCIPLINA AULA PRÁTICA PETROLOGIA

Name: Date
Sample code: Time
Type sample: Lecture: Osvaldo da Cruz Sarmento L.Eng. Ge. P.
DESCRIPTION OF FOSSIL PRESERVATION
Classification
Phylum MOLLUSCA Diagnostic Features
External shell enclosing body
Class CEPHALOPODA Body occupies the last chamber of the shell (the body chamber) earlier chamber are gasfilled
(Ammoideia)
Septa are convoluted with complex suture line

STRUCTURE OF SHELL
Composed of aragonite
Shell is external enclosing the body
Shape :
Straight
Curved
coiled
Septa convoluted plates
Suture line (complex)
a. Goniatite suture line : relative simple with a few pointed lobes and rounded saddles
b. Ceratite suture line : serrated lobes and rounded saddles
c. Ammonite suture line : complex highly frilled lobes and saddles
Location of siphuncle: typically towards periphery of shell
STRATIGRAPHY RANGE (Devonian to cretaceous)
Goniatites range : form Devonian to Permian
Ceratites range : From upper Carboniferous to Triassic
Ammonites range : Permian to Cretaceous
STRATIGRAPHY IMPORTANCE
Ammonoids are the standard index fossil used for time correlation of Devonian to Cretaceous marine strata.

PALEOENVIRONMENT INDICATORS:
Where the Ammonoids assemblage is indigenous to the depositional environment
Open marine conditions
Neritic or upper bathyal zone
Normal oceanic salinity (32-40)
Others (Field Observation in Outcrop)
Mold
Cast
Body skeletal fossil
Fragment skeletal
Traces fossil
Other information