Quarry Partezan, BR-050 (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Pedreira Partezan, L35

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 47.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.3° 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/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: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: D. Dias-Brito, E. A. Musacchio, J. C. Castro, M. S. A. S. Maranhão, J. M. Suárez and R. Rodrigues. 2001. Grupo Bauru: uma unidade continental do Cretáceo no Brasil – concepções baseadas em dados micropaleontológicos, isotópicos e estratigráficos [Bauru Group: a continental unit from the Cretaceous of Brazil – concepts based on micropaleontological, isotopic, and stratigraphic data]. Revue de Paléobiologie 20(1):245-304 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83300: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

 Charales - Characea
Amblyochara sp. Grambast 1962
? Chara sp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort
 Charales - Characeae
Gobichara (Pseudoharrisichara) sp. Karczewska and Ziembinska-Tworzydlo 1972
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
Ostracoda
 Podocopa -
Podocopida "indet. 1" Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Ilyocyprididae
Neuquenocypris minor Musacchio and Simeoni 1991 ostracod
n. subsp. mineira
Ilyocypris "sp. 1" Brady and Norman 1889 ostracod
Ilyocypris setembrinopetrii n. sp. Dias-Brito et al. 2001 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candonopsis sp. Vavra 1891 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
Virgatocypris mezzalirai Dias-Brito et al. 2001 ostracod