Price Quarry 1 (Caieira quarry) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Peirópolis, Serra do Veadinho outcrop 1; Serra do Veadinho; Ponto 1 do Price; "Caiera" Quarry

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.7° S, 47.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Previously described as the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation, but Serra da Galga now raised to the rank of formation (Soares et al. 2021)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium, intraclastic, gray, white, yellow, argillaceous, silty sandstone

• "coarse light yellowish-gray argillaceous sandstones" with rounded clasts; later described as "fine to medium grained white and yellow sandstones, with conspicuous siltic-argillaceous matrix, and some disseminated small argilitic pellets"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by L. I. Price in 1949-1961

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. I. Price. 1955. Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Baurú, Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais [New crocodilians from the Baurú Series sandstones, Cretaceous of Minas Gerais state]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 27(4):487-498 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51628: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005, edited by Roger Benson, Philip Mannion, Patricia Holroyd and Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Testudines - Peiropemydidae
Pricemys caiera n. gen. n. sp.5
Pricemys caiera n. gen. n. sp.5 Gaffney et al. 2011 sideneck turtle
MCT 1498-R, skull
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Podocnemididae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
Peiropemys mezzalirai n. gen. n. sp.5 Gaffney et al. 2011 sideneck turtle
MCT 1497-R, skull
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Pristiguana brasilensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Pristiguana brasilensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Estes and Price 1973 squamates
DGM 552 (holotype)
 Loricata - Itasuchidae
Itasuchus jesuinoi n. gen. n. sp.
Itasuchus jesuinoi n. gen. n. sp. Price 1955 crocodilian
DGM 434-R - holotype (cranial and postcranial bones)
 Loricata -
Labidiosuchus amicum n. gen. n. sp.7
Labidiosuchus amicum n. gen. n. sp.7 Kellner et al. 2011 crocodilian
DGM 1480-R - holotype (Incomplete lower jaw); originally identified as a dinosaur element (Campos & Azevedo, 1992)
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Ypupiara lopai n. gen. n. sp.1
Ypupiara lopai n. gen. n. sp.1 Brum et al. 2021 maniraptoran
Holotype: DGM 921-R, consisting of a partial preantorbital portion of a right maxillary, with three teeth in loci, and a partial posterior portion of a right dentary.
 Theropoda -
Abelisauroidea indet.9 Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
CPP 692
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.3 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
teeth
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.3 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
teeth
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
 Saurischia -
Caieiria allocaudata n. gen. n. sp.10, "Baurutitan britoi n. gen. n. sp." = Baurutitan britoi6, "Trigonosaurus pricei n. gen. n. sp." = Baurutitan britoi2, Lithostrotia indet.8
Caieiria allocaudata n. gen. n. sp.10 Silva Junior et al. 2022 sauropod
MCT 1719-R - holotype
"Baurutitan britoi n. gen. n. sp." = Baurutitan britoi6 Kellner et al. 2005 sauropod
DGM "Series C" - MCT 1490-R; MCT 1536-R
"Trigonosaurus pricei n. gen. n. sp." = Baurutitan britoi2 Kellner et al. 2005 sauropod
DGM "Series B" - MCT 1488-R
Lithostrotia indet.8 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod
CPPLIP 1241 (prefrontal)
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -