Monte Alto DUPLICATE (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (21.3° S, 48.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 31.6° 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)

• 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; fine-grained, concretionary, nodular, calcareous sandstone

• fine reddish sandstones with frequent concretions and carbonate nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. V. Iori, T. S. Marinho, I. S. Carvalho and L. A. S. Frare. 2018. Cranial morphology of Morrinhosuchus luziae (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Bauru Basin, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 86:41-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193756: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.06.2018

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