Also known as Peirópolis, Serra do Veadinho outcrop 1; Serra do Veadinho; Ponto 1 do Price; "Caiera" Quarry

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-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)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium, intraclastic, gray, white, yellow, argillaceous, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by L. I. Price in 1949-1961

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. I. Price. 1955. Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Baurú, Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais [New crocodilians from the Baurú Series sandstones, Cretaceous of Minas Gerais state]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 27(4):487-498 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51628: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005, edited by Roger Benson, Philip Mannion, Patricia Holroyd and Emma Dunne

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