Pedra Furada Bay (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Where: Bahia, Brazil (12.9° S, 38.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 5.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ilhas Group, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• Lower Cretaceous Recôncavo Basin, Bahia Supergroup, Ilhas Group (Late Hauterivian–Early Barremian)

•"no exact stratigraphic precedence was recorded by Mawson. Rocks from the Recôncavo Basin, Bahia Supergroup, crop out in those localities. The formations from which the material could have come have all been dated as Lower Cretaceous, based on microfossils (Viana et al., 1971)." (Rodrigues & Kellner 2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Allport, Mawson; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. Mawson and A. S. Woodward. 1907. On the Cretaceous formation of Bahia (Brazil), and on vertebrate fossils collected therein. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 63:128-139 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94537: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia gigas Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth
BMNH R 2119, R 2120, R 2121, quadrates
Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Anhangueridae
cf. Anhangueridae indet. pterosaur
BMNH R 8662, R 3221, teeth