Outcrop BR-050 A (km 153.5) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Serra da Galga

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 48.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; coarse-grained, intraclastic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Novas, Carvalho, Ribeiro, & Méndez in 1991

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, I. d. S. Carvalho, L. C. B. Ribeiro and A. H. Méndez. 2008. First abelisaurid bone remains from the Maastrichtian Marília Formation, Bauru Basin, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 29(4):625-635 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80824: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
CPP 893
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
two dorsal centra (CPPLIP 0032 and CPPLIP 0115), three caudal centra (CPPLIP 0031, CPPLIP 0086, and CPPLIP 0114), a partial right ilium (CPPLIP 0029), and a partial right ischium (CPPLIP 0034)