Also known as Mariliasuchus amarali referred material
Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.3° S, 49.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 33.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Lower part in the road section
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•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).
Environment/lithology: loess; massive, brown mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Zaher, D. Pol, A. B. Carvalho, C. Riccomini, D. Campos and W. Nava. 2006. Redescription of the Cranial Morphology of Mariliasuchus amarali, and Its Phylogenetic Affinities (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia). American Museum Novitates 3512:1-40 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114204: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho and Bertini 1999 crocodilian MN6756-V (partial skull with the naris, the orbital, and palatal regions preserved, but lacking the braincase and temporal regions)
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Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840 |