Price Quarry 2 (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Peirópolis, Serra do Veadinho outcrop 2; Serra do Veadinho; Ponto 2 do Price; "Caiera" Quarry

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Previously described as the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation, but Serra da Galga now raised to the rank of formation (Soares et al. 2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. I. Price, D. Campos in 1949–1961, 1990

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. d. A. Campos and A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. On some sauropod (Titanosauridae) pelves from the continental Cretaceous of Brazil. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:143-166 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219556: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Titanosaurinae indet. Lydekker 1893 titanosaurid
DGM, sacrum with R ilium
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian