Also known as Tremembé
Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.9° S, 45.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 39.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tremembé Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral (DGM)
Primary reference: H. M. F. Alvarenga. 1982. Uma gigantesca ave fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis sp. n. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54:697-712 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 148390: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.07.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Caiman tremembensis n. sp.
Caiman tremembensis n. sp. Chiappe 1988 crocodilian DGM 1444-R - type (partial dentary); referred material: DGM 1443-7 (4 dorsal vertebrae, 4 scutes and distal end of a left humerus)
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| Aves | |
"Physornis brasiliensis n. sp." = Paraphysornis brasiliensis
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