Puiú (Jurassic of Brazil)

Where: Pernambuco, Brazil (8.6° S, 37.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 4.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aliança Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• shallow continental lake, with fluvial influence

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2012-2018; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. R. Araújo Carvalho, G. Ribeiro Oliveira, and A. M. Franca Barreto. 2021. New Crocodylomorpha remains from the late jurassic Aliança Formation (Dom João stage), Jatobá Basin. Journal of South American Earth Sciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123399: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
DGEO-CTG-UFPE 6700, 6703 and 7299