Also known as Tremembé

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.5° S, 45.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 39.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tremembé Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• "about 4 m below the most superficial level of shales... late Oligocene or early Miocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; bentonitic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Alvarenga in 1978–1993

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Museu de História Natural de Taubaté (MHNT) collection

Primary reference: H. M. F. Alvarenga. 1999. A fossil screamer (Anseriformes: Anhimidae) from the middle Tertiary of southeastern Brazil. In S. L. Storrs, P. Wellnhofer, C. Mourer-Chauviré, D. W. Steadman, L. D. Martin (eds.), Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:223-230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85172: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 04.12.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)