Rio Piranhas Formation
| Rio Piranhas Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Hauterivian | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Rio do Peixe Group |
| Underlies | undefined |
| Overlies | Sousa Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 6°42′S 38°30′W / 6.7°S 38.5°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 4°24′S 5°36′W / 4.4°S 5.6°W |
| Region | Paraíba |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Extent | Triunfo Subbasin, Rio do Peixe Basin |
  Rio Piranhas Formation (Brazil) | |
The Rio Piranhas Formation is a Berriasian to Hauterivian geologic formation in Paraíba, Brazil. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation,[1] in addition to fossils of the somphospondylan sauropod Triunfosaurus leonardii.[2]
Fossil content
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
[edit]Sauropods
[edit]| Sauropods of the Rio Piranhas Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Triunfosaurus[3] | T. leonardii | Triunfo Basin | Berriasian to Valanginian | Three Insolate Chevrons, Three Insolate Neural Spines & Right ischium | A somphospondylian sauropod | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ Areias Farm at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ismar de Souza Carvalho; Leonardo Salgado; Rafael Matos Lindoso; Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior; Francisco Cézar Costa Nogueira; José Agnelo Soares (2017). "A new basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil" (PDF). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 75: 74–84. Bibcode:2017JSAES..75...74C. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.010. hdl:11336/77769. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
Bibliography
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
Further reading
[edit]- I. S. Carvalho, L. Salgado, R. M. Lindoso, H. I. Araújo-Júnior, F. C. Costa Nogueira and J. A. Soares. 2017. A new basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75:74-84
- ANP - Brazil Round 9 - Rio do Peixe Basin Archived 2018-08-14 at the Wayback Machine