Also known as Caipirasuchus paulistanus type
Where: São Paulo, Brazil (21.2° S, 48.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 31.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• 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).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. V. Iori and I. S. Carvalho. 2011. Caipirasuchus paulistanus, a new sphagesaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Adamantina Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Turonian–Santonian), Bauru Basin, Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(6):1255-1264 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120506: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.11.2011, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Roxochelys wanderleyi1 Price 1953 sideneck turtle MPMA-10-0003/03 (Fig. 5) an almost complete, but heavily crushed and partially disarticulated shell.
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Caipirasuchus sp.2 Iori and Carvalho 2011 crocodilian MPMA 07-0011/00 (partial skull, mandible, a series of paramedian osteoderms, vertebrae and appendicular bones)
Caipirasuchus paulistanus n. gen. n. sp. Iori and Carvalho 2011 crocodilian MPMA 67-0001/00 - holotype (skull, mandible and part of the postcranial skeleton)
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