Veríssimo, Triângulo Mineiro (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 48.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Echaporã Member (Marília Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lowermost layer exposed at site, correlated with Echaporã Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, medium, red sandstone

• "a fine to medium pink sandstone layer"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. P. Lopes and F. S. d. C. Buchmann. 2008. Fossils of titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from a new outcrop in Triângulo Mineiro, southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 11(1):69-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81105: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.06.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Aeolosaurini indet. Franco-Rosas et al. 2004 sauropod
LGP-D0001-5, 7, 9-10