Bauru bird fossil CHECK (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Sao Paulo, Brazil (23.5° S, 46.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bauru Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: fragmentary proximal end of avian carpometacarpus (unpublished)

Primary reference: L. M. Chiappe. 1991. Cretaceous birds of Latin America. Cretaceous Research 12(1):55-63 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13311: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 20.02.2002

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Taxonomic list

Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird