Agua Formosa Creek road cut, near base (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

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

•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

• Loess; Peripheral desert with sporadic (seasonal?) rainfall and restricted flooding in ephemeral ponds
• Brown massive to slightly stratified mudstone with calcite cemenet

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
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)
 Ichnofossils -
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840