Bauru bird fossil CHECK: Maastrichtian, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Sao Paulo |
| Coordinates: | 23.5° South, 46.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.2° South, 32.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bauru |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: fragmentary proximal end of avian carpometacarpus (unpublished) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13311 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter | Enterer: | J. Hunter |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-02-20 12:32:37 | Last modified: | 2016-08-22 16:28:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-02-20 12:32:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4423. | 5% 19300 | L. M. Chiappe. 1991. Cretaceous birds of Latin America. Cretaceous Research 12(1):55-63 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter] |