ammonites
12 Km SW Monte Alto (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Aeolosaurus maximus type

Where: São Paulo, Brazil (23.0° S, 47.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Campanian to Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)

• Top of Adamantina Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, red sandstone

• Reddish, massive sandstones locally with carbonatic cementation

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. M. Santucci and R. J. Bertini. 2001. Distribuição paleogeográfica e biocronológica dos titanossauros (Saurischia, Sauropoda) do Grupo Bauru, Cretáceo Superior do sudeste Brasileiro [Paleogeographic and biochronologic distribution of titanosaurs (Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of southeastern Brazil]. Revista Brasileira de Geosciências 31(3):307-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67540: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 22.11.2006, edited by Philip Mannion