Also known as Ponto 2 do Price, Veadinho Hill, outcrop 2
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: fluvial-lacustrine; conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1987-
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: A. W. A. Kellner. 1994. Preliminary report on the microvertebrate fauna from the Late Cretaceous Bauru strata near Peirópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3, suppl.):31A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 32346: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2003, edited by Steven Miller, Roger Benson, Mark Bell, Philip Mannion, Jonathan Tennant and Kaitlin Maguire
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Uberabatrachus carvalhoi n. gen. n. sp.1
Uberabatrachus carvalhoi n. gen. n. sp.1 Báez et al. 2012 frog CPPLIP 1115 - holotype (partial skeleton lacking the forelimbs and most of the hind limbs, exposed mainly in ventral view)
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Reptilia | |
"Cambaremys langertoni n. gen. n. sp." = Roxochelys wanderleyi4
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Uberabasuchus terrificus n. gen. n. sp.3
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Aves | |
Aves indet.2 bird CPP 481, isolated pedal ungual phalanx lacking its proximal end; CPP 470, isolated pedal phalanx 1 of left digit II
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cf. Enantiornithes indet.2 bird CPP 482, an incomplete metatarsal III of the left foot missing its proximal end
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Reptilia | |
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Sauropoda indet. sauropod
Lithostrotia indet.8 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod CPPLIP 296 (squamosal bone) and CPPLIP 247 (atlas vertebra)
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Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Actinopteri | |
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Siluriformes indet. catfish |