Price Quarry 6, Peirópolis (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Rodovia; BR-262 site; about 1.5 km east of Peirópolis; northern slope of BR-262 highway

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• insect feeding traces on some titanosaurian bones

Collected by L. I. Price in 1947-1949

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

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 51960: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.1 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
two procoelous caudal vertebrae (CPPLIP-0091, CPPLIP-0095), an almost complete rib (CPPLIP-0097), scapula fragment (CPPLIP- 0116)
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
DGM MCT 1489-R, includes ossified tendons
 Saurischia -
Baurutitan britoi2 Kellner et al. 2005 sauropod
CPPLIP-035 (and additional specimens)
Insecta
 Insecta -
Insecta indet.1 insect
bite traces