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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amblyochara sp. Grambast 1962
? Chara sp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort | |
Gobichara (Pseudoharrisichara) sp. Karczewska and Ziembinska-Tworzydlo 1972
cf. Gobichara (Pseudoharrisichara) groeberi Uliana and Musacchio 1978 | |
unclassified | |
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 | |
Reptilia | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod | |
Ostracoda | |
Podocopida "indet. 1" Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Ilyocypris "sp. 1" Brady and Norman 1889 ostracod
Ilyocypris setembrinopetrii n. sp. Dias-Brito et al. 2001 ostracod | |
Candonopsis sp. Vavra 1891 ostracod | |
Virgatocypris mezzalirai Dias-Brito et al. 2001 ostracod |