Praia da Baronesa, Alcântara: Cenomanian, Brazil
collected by I. d. S. Carvalho 1991
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatidae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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Semionotidae indet.
Woodward 1890
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Spariformes
- Sparidae
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Sparidae indet.
(Cuvier 1817)
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodontidae indet.
Woodward 1901
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carvalho 2004 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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aff. Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Sales et al. 2018 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| MN 4547-V-1, 2 (teeth) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelomedusidae indet.
Cope 1868
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Carvalho and Pedrão 2000 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Maranhão |
| Coordinates: | 2.4° South, 44.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.3° South, 19.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,fine,medium,quartzose sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coarse channel fill |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive systems tract |
| Geology comments: tidal-channel environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | I. d. S. Carvalho | Collection dates: | Dec 1991 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Leonardi locality 118, Baronesa Beach | ||
| Database number: | 67225 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-11-15 08:38:41 | Last modified: | 2023-11-09 16:19:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-15 08:38:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 86387. | C. S. Ferreira, S. A. K. Azevedo, I. S. Carvalho, R. A. Gonçalves, and M. A. Vicalvi. 1992. Os fósseis da Formação Itapecuru [Fossil bones from the Itapecuru Formation]. 2o Simpósio sobre as Bacias Cretácicas Brasileiras, Rio Claro–São Paulo, 8 a 11/7/92. Resumos Expandidos 107-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19197 | ETE | I. d. S. Carvalho. 1994. As ocorréncias de ichnofósseis de vertebrados na Bacia de São Luís, Cretáceo Superior, estado do Maranhão [Occurrences of vertebrate ichnofossils in the São Luís Basin, Upper Cretaceous Maranhão state]. Boletim do 3o Simpósio sobre o Cretáceo do Brasil, Rio Claro, São Paulo. UNESP 119-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 19208 | ETE | I. d. S. Carvalho. 2001. Pegadas de dinossauros em depósitos estuarinos (Cenomaniano) da Bacia de São Luís (MA), Brasil [Dinosaur footprints in estuarine deposits (Cenomanian) of the São Luís Basin (MA), Brazil. In D. d. F. Rossetti, A. M. Góes, & W. Truckenbrodt (eds.), O Cretáceo na Bacia de São Luís-Grajau. Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem 245-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 56188 | I. d. S. Carvalho. 2004. Dinosaur footprints from northeastern Brazil: taphonomy and environmental setting. Ichnos 11(3–4):311-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 19198 | ETE | I. d. S. Carvalho and R. A. Gonçalves. 1994. Pegadas de dinossauros Neocretáceas da Formaçao Itapecuru, Bacia de São Luís (Maranhão, Brasil) [Upper Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the Itapecuru Formation, São Luís Basin (Maranhão, Brazil)]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 66(3):279-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 19207 | ETE | I. d. S. Carvalho and E. Pedrão. 2000. Brazilian theropods from the equatorial Atlantic margin: behavior and environmental setting. Gaia 15:369-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 86329 | T. B. Ribeiro, P. M. M. Brito, and P. V. L. G. Costa Pereira. 2023. The predominance of teeth in the non-avian dinosaur record from Cretaceous Brazil: a review. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 86393 | M. A. F. Sales, I. A. P. de Oliveira, and C. L. Schultz. 2018. The oldest abelisaurid record from Brazil and the palaeobiogeographic significance of mid-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages from northern South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 508:107-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |