Bairro do Padre Eterno (DGM collection): Late Oligocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
DGM 1418-R
Reptilia
Chiappe 1988
DGM 1444-R - type (partial dentary); referred material: DGM 1443-7 (4 dorsal vertebrae, 4 scutes and distal end of a left humerus)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:São Paulo
Coordinates: 22.9° South, 45.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.9° South, 39.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Late Oligocene
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tremembé
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral (DGM)
Metadata
Also known as:Tremembé
Database number:148390
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Clapham Enterer:P. Mannion, M. Clapham
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-07-18 23:17:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-18 23:17:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
64609. H. M. F. Alvarenga. 1982. Uma gigantesca ave fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis sp. n. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54:697-712 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

47643 L. M. Chiappe. 1988. Un nuevo caiman (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) de la. Formación Tremembé (Oligoceno), Estado de São Paulo, Brasil, y su significado paleoclimatico. Paula-Coutiana 3:49-66 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]