Amadeu Amaral (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Amaden Amaral

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.4° S, 50.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. A. Candeiro, A. Cau, F. Fanti, W. R. Nava, and F. E. Novas. 2012. First evidence of an unenlagiid (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Maniraptora) from the Bauru Group, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 37:223-226 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150351: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Unenlagiidae
Unenlagiidae indet. Bonaparte 1999 theropod
MPM 011