Sierra de Boa Vista (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Prata Paleontological District Locality 1, Boa Vista Hill, Br-497

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.5° S, 49.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Whereas a Turonian–Santonian age for the Adamantina Formation, based on ostracods and charophytes, has been proposed (Dias-Brito et al. 2001), other authors have argued for a Campanian–Maastrichtian age, based on vertebrate fossils and an alternative interpretation of the ostracod fauna (e.g. Gobbo-Rodrigues et al. 1999; Fernandes and Coimbra 2000). Most recently, stratigraphic work on the Bauru Basin has argued for a late Campanian–early Maastrichtian age for this stratigraphic unit (Batezelli 2017).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; bioturbated, fine-grained, medium, red sandstone and conglomerate

• "a fluvial depositional environment where semi-arid condition, with dry and wet alternate periods perdominated."
• " a fine to medium grained reddish sandstone above a thin conglomeratic layer."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. Moraes & UFRJ in 1997

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• text erroneously lists these taxa as coming from locality 2

Primary reference: D. D. R. Henriques, S. A. K. Azevedo, A. W. A. Kellner, L. B. Carvalho, R. Capilla, J. M. Sayão, A. B. Carvalho, H. P. Silva, and A. A. Soares. 1998. New fossils from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group at Prata, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 70(2):385 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61578: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.06.2006, edited by Franco Aspromonte and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet.1 Lamarck 1801
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Maxakalisaurus topai4 Kellner et al. 2006 sauropod
UFRJ-DG 270-R
Maxakalisaurus topai n. gen. n. sp.3 Kellner et al. 2006 sauropod
MN 5013-V, 7048-7050-V
? Maxakalisaurus topai4 Kellner et al. 2006 sauropod
MMR/UFU-PV 0001
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
MMR/UFU-PV 0007
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.1 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
MMR/UFU-PV 0006
Abelisauridae indet.2 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
MMR/UFU-PV 0005
 Loricata -
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1 Batsch 1788 turtle