Mina Triunfo: Late/Upper Aptian, Brazil
collected 2009
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Tupandactylus imperator
(Campos and Kellner 1997)
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1 individual | |||||||||
CPCA 3590, incomplete skull and lower jaw with associated soft tissues | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Ceará |
Coordinates: | 7.1° South, 39.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 8.6° South, 8.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2-3 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Aptian | ||
Age range of interval: | 119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,gray lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: "low-energy lacustrine environment" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2009 |
Collection method comments: CPCA: Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas da Chapada do Araripe (Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral, Crato, Brazil) |
Metadata
Database number: | 102227 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-01-11 19:28:43 | Last modified: | 2022-03-15 07:06:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-11 19:28:43 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34733. | F. L. Pinheiro, D. C. Fortier, C. L. Schultz, J. Artur, F.G. De Andrade and R. A.M. Bantim. 2011. New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(3):567-580 [R. Butler/R. Butler/S. Bruning] |