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Itapecuru, Maranhão, Brazil

FormationItapecuru
Age:101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
IntervalAptian - Albian
Lithologysandstone/mudstone, "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic", siltstone
Number of Collections3
Number of Occurrences6

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Mata localityMaranhão, BrazilItapecuru
Sao LuisMaranhão, BrazilItapecuru
BR-222 bridgeMaranhão, BrazilItapecuru

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Crocodylia
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Candidodon itapecuruense
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Candidodontidae : Candidodon : Candidodon itapecuruense113 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Plesiosauria
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Sauropterygia : Plesiosauria100.5 - 93.9 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Testudines
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Theropoda
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Theropoda125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Amazonsaurus maranhensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Rebbachisauridae : Amazonsaurus : Amazonsaurus maranhensis125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Carvalho I. d. S., Campos D. d. A. (1988) Um mamífero triconodonte do Cretáceo Inferior do Maranhão, Brasil, Anais de Academia Brasileira de Ciências 60 4, 437-446
Carvalho I. d. S., Boas I. V., et al (2000) Plesiossauros da regiao equatorial brasileira Bacia de Sao Luis (Cretaceous Superior), Brasil, Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 23 51, 33-41
Carvalho I. d. S., Avilla L. d. S., et al (2003) Amazonsaurus maranhensis gen. et sp. nov. (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Brazil, Cretaceous Research 24, 697-713
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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