“Tartaruguito”, Pirapozinho (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.2° S, 51.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. M. Suárez in the 1950s

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• DNPM: Museu de Ciências da Terra, Rio de Janeiro

•MN: Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Primary reference: D. A. Campos, G. R. Oliveira, R. G. Figueiredo, D. Riff, S. A. K. Azevedo, L. B. Carvalho, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2011. On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazi. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):317-327 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106494: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 21.03.2011, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Peirosauridae
Pepesuchus deiseae n. gen. n. sp.
Pepesuchus deiseae n. gen. n. sp. Campos et al. 2011 crocodilian
MN 7005-V, complete skeleton (holotype), MCT 1788-R, complete skull (paratype)
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Bauruemys elegans n. sp. Suarez 1969 sideneck turtle
18 topotypes (MN 4327-V, MN 6674-V, MN 6761-V, MN 6762-V, MN 6771-V, MN 6772-V, MN 6782-V, MN 6789-V, MN 6790-V, MN 6791-V, MN 6795-V, MN6796-V, MN 6797-V, MN 6798-V, MN 6800-V, MN 6807-V, MN 7015-V, MN 7016-V)