Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 48.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 33.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-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)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Bertini, Marshall, Gayet & Brito in 1988-1989
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
Primary reference: R. J. Bertini, L. G. Marshall, M. Gayet and P. M. Brito. 1993. Vertebrate faunas from the Adamantina and Marília Formations (Upper Baurú Group, Late Cretaceous, Brazil) in their stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic context. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 188(1):71-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83250: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Anura indet. frog | |
Reptilia | |
Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914 coelurosaur | |
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920 carnosaur | |
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod | |
Actinopteri | |
Perciformes indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish
Characiformes indet. Regan 1911 |