Stratigraphic range: Late Coniacian-Early Maastrichtian 87.8–68 Ma
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Type
Geological formation
Unit of
Bauru Group
Underlies
Uberaba Formation
Overlies
Santo Anastacio, Caiuá & Araçatuba Formations
Lithology
Primary
Sandstone, calcrete
Other
Mudstone, siltstone, conglomerate, coal
Location
Coordinates
21°36′S50°06′W / 21.6°S 50.1°W / -21.6; -50.1
Approximate paleocoordinates
25°48′S33°06′W / 25.8°S 33.1°W / -25.8; -33.1
Region
São Paulo
Country
Brazil
Extent
Bauru Basin, Paraná Basin
Type section
Named for
Adamantina
Adamantina Formation (Brazil)
The Adamantina Formation is a geological formation in the Bauru Basin of western São Paulo state, in southeastern Brazil.
Its strata date back to the Late Cretaceous epoch of the Cretaceous Period, during the Mesozoic Era. The formation is part of the Bauru Group in the northeastern Paraná Basin.
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The AdamantinaFormation is a geological formation in the Bauru Basin of western São Paulo state, in southeastern Brazil. Its strata date back to the Late...
(2024). "A new Baurusuchidae (Notosuchia, Crocodyliformes) from the AdamantinaFormation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), with a revised phylogenetic analysis...
A.C. (2011). "A new sauropod (Macronaria, Titanosauria) from the AdamantinaFormation, Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogenetic relationships...
currently known only from the AdamantinaFormation of Brazil. The AdamantinaFormation is part of the Bauru Group of geologic formations. The stratigraphy and...
Apesteguía, Sebastián (2007). "The sauropod diversity of the La Amarga Formation (Barremian), Neuquén (Argentina)". Gondwana Research. 12 (4): 533–546...
in February 2009 from the late Campanian to early Maastrichtian AdamantinaFormation of the Bauru Basin in Brazil, dating to approximately 70 Ma. Armadillosuchus...
Turonian–Santonian Brazil AdamantinaFormation A sphagesaurid with armadillo-like armor shields. Baurusuchus Turonian Brazil AdamantinaFormation A large hypercarnivore...
Monte Alto County of northern São Paulo. It was collected from the AdamantinaFormation of the Bauru Basin, which dates to the Turonian and Santonian stages...
Allen Formation is known from seven teeth, which document the presence of several species. List of dinosaur-bearing rock formationsAdamantinaFormation La...
dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)-aged AdamantinaFormation of Brazil. The type species, A. maximus, was named and described...
URC-R 015 from Locality 99 of the AdamantinaFormation, to S. huenei, and referred the DGM specimens to the same formation. Kellner et al. (1995) and Kellner...
similarly sized Stratiotosuchus from the AdamantinaFormation, and Pabweshi, from the Pakistani Pab Formation. B. salgadoensis is seen as a terrestrial...
sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) AdamantinaFormation of Brazil. The type species is Brasilotitan nemophagus. Brasilotitan...
(Maastrichtian) †Bauruemys Presidente Prudente Formation, Brazil, Late Cretaceous (Campanian) †Roxochelys AdamantinaFormation, Brazil, Campanian Family †Peiropemydidae...
Maxakalisaurus is a genus of titanosaur dinosaur, found in the AdamantinaFormation of Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais in 1998. The genus name is...
and Marília. The AdamantinaFormation was divided in Vale do Rio do Peixe, São José do Rio Preto and Presidente Prudente Formations. †Physa aridi Mezzalira...
Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the AdamantinaFormation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):312-334 I. d. S...
al. (2021). Description of coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous AdamantinaFormation (Brazil) found in association with skeletons of baurusuchid and sphagesaurid...
found in the AdamantinaFormation (originally described as Bauru Formation; has also been reported as the São José do Rio Preto Formation) of the northern...
eggs in coprolites preliminary assigned to Crocodyliformes from the AdamantinaFormation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), São Paulo, Brazil". Anais da Academia...
Benton, M.J. (2011). "Crocodylomorph eggs and eggshells from the AdamantinaFormation (Bauru Group), Upper Cretaceous of Brazil". Palaeontology. 54 (2):...
of frog described based on several fossils found in the Campanian AdamantinaFormation, Bauru Group, Brazil. The holotype comprises a postmetamorphic adult...
Bauru Basin of Brazil, from Campanian-Maastrichtian deposits of the AdamantinaFormation. The species was described in 2007, and assigned to the family Peirosauridae...
boliviensis. The formation is correlated with the AdamantinaFormation of the Paraná Basin in Brazil and the Bajo de la Carpa Formation of the Neuquén Basin...
Antonio C. (2011). "A new sauropod (Macronaria, Titanosauria) from the AdamantinaFormation, Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogenetic relationships...
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