“Tartaruguito”, Pirapozinho: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Brazil
collected by J. M. Suárez 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pepesuchus deiseae n. gen., n. sp. Campos et al. 2011
2 individuals
MN 7005-V, complete skeleton (holotype), MCT 1788-R, complete skull (paratype)
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Bauruemys elegans n. sp. (Suarez 1969)
Romano and Azevedo 2007 18 individuals
18 topotypes (MN 4327-V, MN 6674-V, MN 6761-V, MN 6762-V, MN 6771-V, MN 6772-V, MN 6782-V, MN 6789-V, MN 6790-V, MN 6791-V, MN 6795-V, MN6796-V, MN 6797-V, MN 6798-V, MN 6800-V, MN 6807-V, MN 7015-V, MN 7016-V)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:São Paulo
Coordinates: 22.2° South, 51.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.3° South, 34.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bauru Formation:Presidente Prudente
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. M. Suárez Collection dates:1950s
Collection method comments: DNPM: Museu de Ciências da Terra, Rio de Janeiro
MN: Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Metadata
Database number:106494
Authorizer:R. Butler, R. Benson Enterer:R. Butler, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-21 03:34:45 Last modified:2022-09-23 14:13:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-21 03:34:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35565. D. A. Campos, G. R. Oliveira, R. G. Figueiredo, D. Riff, S. A. K. Azevedo, L. B. Carvalho, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2011. On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazi. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):317-327 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

41984 P. S. R. Romano and S. A. K. Azevedo. 2007. Morphometric analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Brazilian side-necked turtle Bauruemys elegans (Suarez, 1969) (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):395-402 [R. Benson/R. Benson]