Uberaba Formation

The Uberaba Formation is a Campanian geologic formation belonging to the Bauru Group of the Bauru Sub-basin, Paraná Basin located in Minas Gerais state of southeastern Brazil. The Uberaba Formation, intercalating the fossiliferous older Adamantina and younger Marília Formation, comprises limestones, sandstones, and conglomerates, often cemented by calcite with volcaniclastic sediments.[1] The formation interfingers with the Adamantina Formation.[2]

Uberaba Formation Stratigraphic range: Campanian ~84.9–70.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Bauru Group
Underlies	Marília Formation
Overlies	Adamantina Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone, sandstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	19.8°S 47.9°W / -19.8; -47.9
Approximate paleocoordinates	24.5°S 29.2°W / -24.5; -29.2
Region	Minas Gerais
Country	Brazil
Extent	Bauru Sub-basin, Paraná Basin
Type section
Named for	Uberaba
Uberaba Formation (Brazil)

Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.[3]

The crocodylomorph Uberabasuchus was described from the overlying Marília Formation.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
• List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
• Campanian formations
  • Anacleto Formation, contemporaneous Lagerstätte of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina
  • Los Llanos Formation, contemporaneous ooliferous formation of the Sierra de Los Llanos, Argentina
  • Lago Colhué Huapí Formation, contemporaneous fossilierous formation of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina
• Cretaceous Brazil
  • Vista Alegre crater, possibly Aptian impact crater in the Paraná Basin

References

1. Brusatte et al., 2017, p.1470
2. Brusatte et al., 2017, p.1467
3. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607

Bibliography

• Brusatte, Stephen L.; Carlos R.A. Candeiro, and Felipe M. Simbras. 2017. The last dinosaurs of Brazil: The Bauru Group and its implications for the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 89. 1465–1485. Accessed 2019-03-28.
• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21.ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading

• Candeiro, C.R.A.; A.G. Martinelli; L.S. Avilla, and T.H. Rich. 2006. Tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian–Maastrichtian) Bauru Group of Brazil: a reappraisal. Cretaceous Research 27. 923–946. Accessed 2019-03-28.