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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
|