Ladeira da Berlenga: Late Aptian, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Uruguaysuchidae
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Araripesuchus gomesii n. gen., n. sp.
Price 1959
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| DGM-DNPM 432-R - holotype (Nearly complete, but poorly preserved, skull lacking much of the skull table and occiput posterior to the left orbit and right supratemporal fenestra. A nearly complete mandible is preserved in near articulation) | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Piauí |
| Coordinates: | 7.1° South, 40.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.9° South, 1.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 119.57 - 113.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Santana | Formation: | Romualdo | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From Melo et al. 2020: In summary, this integrated study of foraminifera, ostracodes and other microfossil data from the Romualdo Formation indicates that the local Alagoas Stage (Ostracoda Zone RT-011) can now be constrained to the Aptian. Arai and Assine 2020 also support that the Romualdo Formation is entirely Aptian in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Araripesuchus gomesii type locality | ||
| Database number: | 123478 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-23 22:52:03 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-23 22:52:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42958. | L. I. Price. 1959. Sobre um crocodilideo notossuquio do Cretacico Brasileiro. Boletim Divisao de Geolgia e Mineralogia Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 188:1-55 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 37111 | F. Ortega, Z. Gasparini, A. D. Buscaloni and J. O. Calvo. 2000. A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1):57-76 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |