Barro Alto site (Sitio Barro Alto) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1996

Primary reference: D. C. Bonfim Júnior and R. B. Marques. 1997. Um novo lagarto do Cretáceo do Brazil (Lepidosauria, Squamata, Lacertilia - Formação Santana, Aptiano da Bacia do Araripe. Anuário do Instituto do Geociencias 20:233-240 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118941: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 18.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Tijubina pontei n. gen. n. sp.
Tijubina pontei n. gen. n. sp. Bonfim Júnior and Marques 1997 squamates
holotype skeleton