Mangabeira Station (DGM) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 48.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Previously described as the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation, but Serra da Galga now raised to the rank of formation (Soares et al. 2021)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bittencourt in 1945

Primary reference: L. I. Price. 1955. Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Baurú, Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais [New crocodilians from the Baurú Series sandstones, Cretaceous of Minas Gerais state]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 27(4):487-498 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51663: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
includes bones and at least one egg