Also known as Pedreira de Ponte Alta

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

• vertebrate bite trace on titanosaur epiphysis (but could possibly be from insects)

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: D. d. A. Campos and A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. On some sauropod (Titanosauridae) pelves from the continental Cretaceous of Brazil. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:143-166 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51958: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005

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