Vaca Morta, Ibirá (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (21.0° S, 49.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 30.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• A sub-horizontal exposition of the São José do Rio Preto Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandy, conglomeratic sandstone

• Fluvial bars of a braided river system
• Sandy stratigraphic unit also includes conglomeratic deposits that concentrate the fossil record of the region

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. C. Montefeltro, C. R. Laurini, and M. C. Langer. 2009. Multicusped crocodyliform teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (São José do Rio Preto Formation, Bauru Group) of São Paulo, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 30:1279-1286 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114464: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Saltasauridae indet.
Saltasauridae indet. saltasaurid
LPP-PV-0200
 Loricata - Candidodontidae
Candidodontidae indet.
Candidodontidae indet. crocodilian
LPRP/USP 0004-0009 - 6 teeth