Capanema: Early/Lower Miocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Gavialoidea indet.
(Brochu 1997)
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Moraes-Santos et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| MPEG 1130-V (partial portion of mandibular symphysis) and MPEG 1010-V (right lateral portion of mandibular symphysis) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Dugongidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Toledo and Domning 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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cf. Rytiodus sp.
Lartet 1866
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Toledo and Domning 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
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Sirenotherium pirabensis
Paula Couto 1967
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Sirenia | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Para |
| Coordinates: | 1.2° South, 47.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.2° South, 43.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pirabas |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Quarry B-5 | ||
| Database number: | 65163 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-19 09:58:14 | Last modified: | 2011-07-12 09:38:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-19 09:58:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18753. | C. Paula Couto. 1967. Contribuicao a paleontologia do Estado do Para. Um Sirenio na Formacao Pirabas. Atas so Simposio Sobre a Biota Amazonica 1:345-357 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 46552 | H. Moraes-Santos, J. Bocquentin Villanueva, and P. M. Toledo. 2011. New remains of a gavialoid crocodilian from the late Oligocene-early Miocene of the Pirabas Formation, Brazil. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S132-S139 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 36647 | P. M. Toledo and D. P. Domning. 1991. Fossil Sirenia (Mammalia: Dugongidae) from the Pirabas Formation (Early Miocene), Northern Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Série Ciências da Terra 1(2):119-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |