Areias Farm: Berriasian - Early Hauterivian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
UFRJ-DG-498 - holotype
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Paraíba County:Triunfo
Coordinates: 6.7° South, 38.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.2° South, 3.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian - Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1 - Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Berriasian - Early Hauterivian
Age range of interval: 143.1 - 125.77 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rio do Peixe Formation:Rio Piranhas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: arkose sandstones in a trough-cross bedding structure
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: gravel bars
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:184127
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-02-03 10:43:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-02-03 10:43:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
61524. I. S. Carvalho, L. Salgado, R. M. Lindoso, H. I. Araújo-Júnior, F. C. Costa Nogueira and J. A. Soares. 2017. A new basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75:74-84 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

86329 T. B. Ribeiro, P. M. M. Brito, and P. V. L. G. Costa Pereira. 2023. The predominance of teeth in the non-avian dinosaur record from Cretaceous Brazil: a review. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]