Also known as General Salgado; Fazenda Buriti Paleontological Site, Gondwanasuchus scabrosus type
Where: Maranhão, Brazil (20.6° S, 50.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 33.5° 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)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; red, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. S. Marinho, F. V. Iori, I.S. Carvalho and F. M. Vasconcellos. 2013. Gondwanasuchus scabrosus gen. et sp. nov., a new terrestrial predatory crocodyliform (Mesoeucrocodylia: Baurusuchidae) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Basin of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 44:104-111 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190080: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Michael Hudgins on 27.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gondwanasuchus scabrosus n. gen. n. sp.
Gondwanasuchus scabrosus n. gen. n. sp. Marinho et al. 2013 crocodilian UFRJ DG 408-R - holotype (well-preserved partial skull and mandible, lacking the skull roof, basicranial region and bones of the right side posterior to the anterior orbital margin (Figs. 2 and 3) and the remains of five cervical vertebrae and some associated cervical ribs)
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