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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Titanosaurinae indet. Lydekker 1893 titanosaurid DGM "Series A" - MCT 1487; complete series of cervicals except axis, plus three anterior dorsals
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