Collina Station, Barretos (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (25.7° S, 48.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 31.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• originally from a well, then further excavated

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; intraclastic, calcareous sandstone and coal

• "a friable sandstone with false stratification, containing numerous rolled fragments of red clay and diabase pebbles and Triassic sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Pacheco in 1911

Primary reference: J. A. d. Pacheco. 1913. Notas sobre a geologia do valle do rio Grande a partir da fóz do rio Pardo até a sua confluencia com o rio Paranahyba [Notes on the geology of the valley of the Rio Grande from the mouth of the Rio Pardo to its confluence with the Rio Paranahyba]. In S. J. Dos Dourados (ed.), Exploraçao do Rio Grande e de Seus Affluentes 33-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 63925: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes Agassiz 1832 gar
"ganoid scales"
Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur
2 teeth, femur
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
vertebrae
 Ornithischia -
Thyreophora indet. ornithischian
dermal bone (?titanosaur)
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
teeth
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemis harrisi n. sp. Pacheco 1913 river turtle
carapace fragments