Price Quarry 5, Peirópolis (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Mumbuca, BR 262, Mombuca

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.6° 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: fluvial; limestone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. I. Price in 1957

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

• vertebrae may have been articulated or merely associated; original collection data have been lost

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51959: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosaurinae indet. Lydekker 1893 titanosaurid
DGM "Series A" - MCT 1487; complete series of cervicals except axis, plus three anterior dorsals