Quiricó Formation
The Quiricó Formation is a geological formation of the Areado Group in Minas Gerais, Brazil whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous (Aptian). Many occurrences of fossils are reported in the lacustrine deposits of the Quiricó Formation.
Fossil content
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
Sauropods
| Sauropods of the Quiricó Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Rebbachisauridae indet. | Indeterminate | |||||
| Tapuiasaurus | T. macedoi | A titanosaurian sauropod. | ||||
Theropoda
| Theropods of the Quiricó Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Abelisauridae indet. | Indeterminate | |||||
| Carcharodontosauridae indet. | Indeterminate | |||||
| Spectrovenator | S. ragei | An abelisaurid theropod. | ||||
Squamates
| Squamates of the Quiricó Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Cryptobicuspidon | C. pachysymphysealis | A polyglyphanodontid lizard. | ||||
| Neokotus | N. sanfranciscanus | A paramacellodid lizard. | ||||
Crustacean
| Crustacean of the Quiricó Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Alicenula | A. longiformis | A ostracod. | ||||
| Penthesilenula | P. pintoi | A ostracod. | ||||
| Platyestheria | P. abaetensis | A clam shrimp. | ||||
| Timiriasevia | T. sanfranciscanensis | A ostracod. | ||||
Fish
| Fishes of the Quiricó Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Francischanos | F. moraesi | A chanid fish. | ||||
| Laeliichthys | L. ancentralis | An osteoglossomorph fish. | ||||
| Hybodontiformes Indet. | Indeterminate | |||||
| Mawsonia | M. sp. | A mawsoniid coelacanth. | ||||
| Tribodus | T. sp. | A hybodont shark. | ||||
References
- ^ Carvalho & Santucci, 2024
- ^ Sgarbi, 2000
- ^ Carvalho and Santucci, 2018
- ^ Hussam Zaher; Diego Pol; Alberto B. Carvalho; Paulo M. Nascimento; Claudio Riccomini; Peter Larson; Rubén Juarez-Valieri; Ricardo Pires-Domingues; Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr.; Diógenes de Almeida Campos (2011). Sereno, Paul (ed.). "A Complete Skull of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod and the Evolution of Advanced Titanosaurians". PLOS ONE. 6 (2): e16663. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...616663Z. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016663. PMC 3034730. PMID 21326881.
- ^ Hussam Zaher; Diego Pol; Bruno Albert Navarro; Rafael Delcourt; Alberto Barbosa Carvalho (2020). "An Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil sheds light on the cranial evolution of the Abelisauridae". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 19 (6): 101–115. doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a6. hdl:11336/153682. S2CID 225149330.
- ^ Carvalho, J. C.; Santucci, R. M. (2023). "A new fossil Squamata from the Quiricó Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Sanfranciscana Basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil". Cretaceous Research. 154. 105717. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105717. S2CID 264138153.
- ^ Jonathas Souza Bittencourt; Tiago Rodrigues Simões; Michael Wayne Caldwell; Max Cardoso Langer (2020). "Discovery of the oldest South American fossil lizard illustrates the cosmopolitanism of early South American squamates". Communications Biology. 3 (1): Article number 201. doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0926-0. PMC 7190622. PMID 32350412.
- ^ Amanda Moreira Leite; Dermeval Aparecido Do Carmo; Caio Bussaglia Ress; Murilo Pessoa; Guilherme Miranda Caixeta; Matheus Denezine; Rodrigo Rodrigues Adorno; Lucas Silveira Antonietto (2018). "Taxonomy of limnic Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous, São Francisco basin, Minas Gerais State, Southeast Brazil". Journal of Paleontology. 92 (4): 661–680. Bibcode:2018JPal...92..661L. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.1. S2CID 135458331.
- ^ Jonathas S. Bittencourt; Rosemarie Rohn; Oscar F. Gallego; Mateo D. Monferran; Alexandre Uhlein (2018). "The morphology and systematics of the clam shrimp Platyestheria gen. nov. abaetensis (Cardoso) (Crustacea, Spinicaudata) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana Basin, southeast Brazil". Cretaceous Research. 91: 274–286. Bibcode:2018CrRes..91..274B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.06.016. hdl:11449/176586. S2CID 133928377.
- ^ Santos, 1955
- ^ Ribeiro, A. C.; Bockmann, F. A.; Poyato-Ariza, F. J. (2022). "Francischanos, a replacement genus for Dastilbe moraesi Silva-Santos, 1955, from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Gonorynchiformes)". Cretaceous Research. 135: Article 105212. Bibcode:2022CrRes.13505212R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105212. S2CID 247531742.
- ^ Santos, 1985
Bibliography
- Celerino de Carvalho, Joyce; Santucci, Rodrigo Miloni (2024), "A new fossil Squamata from the Quiricó Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Sanfranciscana Basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil", Cretaceous Research, 154: 105717, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105717
- Souza Bittencourt, Jonathas; Rodrigues Simões, Tiago; Caldwell, Michael Wayne; Cardoso Langer, Max (2020), "Discovery of the oldest South American fossil lizard illustrates the cosmopolitanism of early South American squamates", Communications Biology, 3 (1): Article number 201, doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0926-0, PMC 7190622, PMID 32350412
- Zaher, H.; Pol, D.; Carvalho, A.B.; Nascimento, P.M.; Riccomini, C.; Larson, P.; Juarez Valieri, R.; Pires-Domingues, R.; da Silva, N.J. and Campos, D.A. (2011), "A Complete Skull of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod and the Evolution of Advanced Titanosaurians", PLoS ONE, 6 (2): e16663, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016663, PMC 3034730, PMID 21326881
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Bibcode:/abstract 2011PLoSO...616663Z - Sgarbi, G.N.C (2000), "The Cretaceous Sanfranciscan Basin, Eastern Plateau of Brazil", Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 30 (3): 450–452, doi:10.25249/0375-7536.2000303450452 (inactive 1 November 2024)
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - Santos, R.S (1985), "Laeliichthys ancestralis, novo gênero e espécie de Osteoglossiformes do Aptiano da Formação Areado, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil", Colet. Trab. Paleontol. Ser. Geol., 27: 161–167
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- Carvalho, Joyce Celerino de; Santucci, Rodrigo Miloni (2018), "New dinosaur remains from the Quiricó Formation, Sanfranciscana Basin (Lower Cretaceous), Southwestern Brazil", Cretaceous Research, 85: 20–27, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.017