Itapeua beach (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Maranhão, Brazil (2.9° S, 44.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 19.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alcântara Formation (Itapecuru Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green siltstone

• greenish argillaceous siltic levels 20 cm thickness

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Lindoso, M. A. A. Medeiros, I. S. Carvalho, A. A. Pereira, I. D. Mendes, F. V. Iori, E. P. Sousa, S. H. S. Arcanjo, and T. C. M. Silva. 2019. A new rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) from the middle Cretaceous of northern Brazil. Cretaceous Research 104:104191:1-15 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203122: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Itapeuasaurus cajapioensis n. gen. n. sp. Lindoso et al. 2019 sauropod
UFMA. 1.10.1960 - holotype