Rural road at Monte Alto and Taiaçu border: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Brazil
collected by Museu de Paleontologia de Monte Alto
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Boipeba tayasuensis n. gen., n. sp.
Fachini et al. 2020
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Fachini et al. 2020 | |||||||||
| MPMA 16-0008-08 - holotype | ||||||||||
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Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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| fragmentary skull remains | ||||||||||
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Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi n. gen., n. sp.
Carvalho et al. 2007
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1 individual | |||||||||
| MPMA-16-0007-04 - holotype (Skull, mandible and almost complete axial and appendicular skeleton, and articulated dorsal and ventral exoskeleton [osteoderms]) | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Skolithos sp.
Haldemann 1840
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| vertical invertebrate burrows | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | São Paulo | County: | Monte Alto |
| Coordinates: | 21.2° South, 48.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.4° South, 31.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bauru | Formation: | Adamantina |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",very fine,fine,intraclastic,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Decimetric fine to very fine reddish sandstones with tabular geometries, with cross-stratifications; abundant clay intraclasts and rare, discontinuous, mudstone laminae | |
| Environment: | fine channel fill |
| Geology comments: Braided river channel and peripheral ephemeral small ponds. The climate was hot with long arid periods punctuated by torrential rains and flash floods. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Museu de Paleontologia de Monte Alto |
Metadata
| Also known as: | MPMA 16 | ||
| Database number: | 114829 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2011-08-25 03:11:26 | Last modified: | 2022-03-11 14:35:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-25 03:11:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37206. | I. d. S. Carvalho, F. M. d. Vasconcellos, and S. A. S. Tavares. 2007. Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a new peirosaurid crocodile (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa 1607:35-46 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 74512 | T. S. Fachini, S. Onary, A. Palci, M. S. Y. Lee, M. Bronzati and A. S. Hsiou. 2020. Cretaceous blindsnake from Brazil fills major gap in snake evolution. iScience 23(12):101834:1-13 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 56025 | S. A. S. Tavares, F. Ricardi-Branco, and I. D. S. Carvalho. 2015. Osteoderms of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi (Crocodyliformes, Peirosauridae) from the Turonian-Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Bauru Basin, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 56:651-661 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |