Coroatá, Itapecuru River (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Santo Esidio, Santo Izidio

Where: Maranhão, Brazil (4.1° S, 44.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 14.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Undifferentiated Unit Formation (Itapecuru Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• lower/middle Albian, so-called 'Undifferentiated Unit'

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected by landowners from three outcrops

Primary reference: L. L. Ribeiro, H. M. Moraes-Santos, and M. A. Medeiros. 2003. Ocorrência de Theropoda no Grupo Itapecuru da localidade de Coroatá, centro-leste do Maranhão [Occurrence of Theropoda in the Itapecuru Group in the locality of Coroatá, central-eastern Maranhão]. Paleontologia em Destaque 44:51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79658: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.2
Titanosauriformes indet.2 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
CCC 005, 010, 053, 074
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisauridae indet.1
Rebbachisauridae indet.1 sauropod
CCC 017, 030, 060
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. theropod
teeth, assigned to 7 different (unspecified) taxa
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosaurus sp.
Carcharodontosaurus sp. Stromer 1931 allosauroid
teeth
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Spinosaurinae indet.
Spinosaurinae indet. Sereno et al. 1998 tetanuran theropod
teeth
1Castro et al. 2007; 2Poropat et al. 2017