Bairro do Padre Eterno (DGM collection) (Oligocene of Brazil)

Also known as Tremembé

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (22.9° S, 45.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 39.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

• Repository: Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral (DGM)

Primary reference: H. M. F. Alvarenga. 1982. Uma gigantesca ave fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis sp. n. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54:697-712 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148390: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.07.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Caiman tremembensis n. sp. Chiappe 1988 crocodilian
DGM 1444-R - type (partial dentary); referred material: DGM 1443-7 (4 dorsal vertebrae, 4 scutes and distal end of a left humerus)
Aves
 Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
"Physornis brasiliensis n. sp." = Paraphysornis brasiliensis
"Physornis brasiliensis n. sp." = Paraphysornis brasiliensis Alvarenga 1982 terror bird
DGM 1418-R