Peirópolis site (CPP) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 47.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; white, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. M. Santucci and R. J. Bertini. 2001. Distribuição paleogeográfica e biocronológica dos titanossauros (Saurischia, Sauropoda) do Grupo Bauru, Cretáceo Superior do sudeste Brasileiro [Paleogeographic and biochronologic distribution of titanosaurs (Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of southeastern Brazil]. Revista Brasileira de Geosciências 31(3):307-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 64133: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
morphotypes 8 & 9: CPP 128, 243, 271, 371, 374
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
cf. Carcharodontosauridae indet.2 Stromer 1931 allosauroid
morphotypes 3 to 7; CPP 124, 127, 129a, 152, 156, 197, 199, 200, 208, 216, 241, 375/1, 376, 447-449, 474-475
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.1 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
CPP 002, 020-021, 121, 123, 129b, c, 131-132, 134-136, 144, 150, 154, morphotypes 1 & 2: 158, 161/1, 198, 205-207, 211, 242, 372, 375/2, 446, 451/1, 452/1, 463, 476-478
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.6 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
CPP 491
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithidae indet.3 titanosaurid
CPP 411, 456, 457
 Saurischia -
"Trigonosaurus pricei" = Baurutitan britoi4, Aeolosaurus sp.5
"Trigonosaurus pricei" = Baurutitan britoi4 Kellner et al. 2005 sauropod
CPP 494 (posterior dorsal vertebra); previously described as an indeterminate titanosaur by Santucci and Bertini (2006)
Aeolosaurus sp.5 Powell 1987 sauropod
CPP 0298 (also listed as 248), 374; caudals