Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 48.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 23.7° S, 29.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group), Maastrichtian (72.2 - 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Hermanson, G. S. Ferreira, and M. C. Langer. 2017. The largest Cretaceous podocnemidoid turtle (Pleurodira) revealed by an isolated plate from the Bauru Basin, south-central Brazil. Historical Biology 29(6):833-840 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187508: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 31.07.2017

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