Presidente Prudente Formation

Presidente Prudente Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Bauru Group
Overlies Adamantina Formation
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Location
Coordinates 22°06′S 51°24′W / 22.1°S 51.4°W / -22.1; -51.4Coordinates: 22°06′S 51°24′W / 22.1°S 51.4°W / -22.1; -51.4
Approximate paleocoordinates 26°12′S 34°36′W / 26.2°S 34.6°W / -26.2; -34.6
Region São Paulo
Country  Brazil
Extent Paraná Basin

The Presidente Prudente Formation is a geological formation of the Bauru Group in the Paraná Basin, located in Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian.

Paleofauna

Crocodyliformes

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
 Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Crocodyliformes reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus Species Material Notes Images
Pepesuchus[1] P. deiseae "a nearly complete skeleton and skull" a member of itasuchidae
Roxochampsa[2] R. paulistanus a member of itasuchidae, previously known as "Goniopholis" paulistanus

Turtles

Turtles reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus Species Material Notes Images
Bauruemys[3] B. elegans Skulls a podocnemidid side-necked turtle
Roxochelys[4] R. wanderleyi A podocnemidid side-necked turtle

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus Species Material Notes Images
Austroposeidon[5] A. magnificus "cervical, dorsal, and sacral vertebrae, along with a cervical rib and one complete dorsal vertebra" A titanosaurian sauropod

References

  1. ↑ Campos, Diogenes A.; Oliveira, Gustavo R.; Figueiredo, Rodrigo G.; Riff, Douglas; Azevedo, Sergio A.K.; Carvalho, Luciana B.; Kellner, Alexander W.A. (2011). "On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil" (PDF). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 83: 317–327. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000100020.
  2. ↑ André E. Piacentini Pinheiro; Paulo Victor Luiz Gomes da Costa Pereira; Rafael G. de Souza; Arthur S. Brum; Ricardo T. Lopes; Alessandra S. Machado; Lílian P. Bergqvist; Felipe M. Simbras (2018). "Reassessment of the enigmatic crocodyliform "Goniopholis" paulistanus Roxo, 1936: Historical approach, systematic, and description by new materials". PLoS ONE. 13 (8): e0199984. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0199984. PMC 6070184. PMID 30067779.
  3. ↑ Morphometric analysis of the Upper Cretaceous brazilian side-necked turtle Bauruemys elegans (Suárez, 1969)(Pleurodira, Podocnemididae). PSR Romano, SAK Azevedo - Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 2007
  4. ↑ P. S. R. Romano, G. R. Oliveira, S. A. K. Azevedo, A. W. A. Kellner, and D. Almeida Campos. 2013. New Information about Pelomedusoides (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Brazil. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 261-275 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
  5. ↑ Bandeira, K.L.N.; Medeiros Simbras, F.; Batista Machado, E.; de Almeida Campos, D.; Oliveira, G.R.; Kellner, A.W.A. (2016). "A New Giant Titanosauria (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group, Brazil". PLoS ONE. 11 (10): e0163373. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163373 PMC 5051738 Freely accessible. PMID 27706250
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