Outcrop BR-050 (km 24) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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
 Salientia -
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914 coelurosaur
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920 carnosaur
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
 Teleostei -
Perciformes indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish