Presidente Prudente Formation

Presidente Prudente Formation
Presidente Prudente Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Bauru Group
Location
Region	South America
Country	Brazil

The Presidente Prudente Formation is a geological formation located in Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous period.

Paleofauna

Color key

Taxon	Reclassified taxon	Taxon falsely reported as present	Dubious taxon or junior synonym	Ichnotaxon	Ootaxon	Morphotaxon

Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; ~~crossed out~~ taxa are discredited.

Crocodyliformes reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus	Species	Material	Notes	Images
Pepesuchus^[1]	P. deiseae	"a nearly complete skeleton and skull"	a peirosaurid

Turtles reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus	Species	Material	Notes	Images
Bauruemys^[2]	B. elegans	Skulls	a podocnemidid side-necked turtle
Roxochelys^[3]	R. wanderleyi		A podocnemidid side-necked turtle

Dinosaurs reported from the Presidente Prudente Formation
Genus	Species	Material	Notes	Images
Austroposeidon^[4]	A. magnificus	"cervical, dorsal, and sacral vertebrae, along with a cervical rib and one complete dorsal vertebra"	A titanosaurian sauropod

^ Campos, Diogenes A.; Gustavo R. Oliveira; Rodrigo G. Figueiredo; Douglas Riff; Sergio A.K. Azevedo; Luciana B. Carvalho; Alexander W.A. Kellner (2011). "On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil" (PDF). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 83 (1): 317–327. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000100020.
^ Morphometric analysis of the Upper Cretaceous brazilian side-necked turtle Bauruemys elegans (Suárez, 1969)(Pleurodira, Podocnemididae). PSR Romano, SAK Azevedo - Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 2007
^ P. S. R. Romano, G. R. Oliveira, S. A. K. Azevedo, A. W. A. Kellner, and D. Almeida Campos. 2013. New Information about Pelomedusoides (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Brazil. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 261-275 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
^ Bandeira, K.L.N.; Medeiros Simbras, F.; Batista Machado, E.; de Almeida Campos, D.; Oliveira, G.R.; Kellner, A.W.A. (2016). "A New Giant Titanosauria (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group, Brazil". PLoS ONE. 11 (10): e0163373. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163373. PMC 5051738 Freely accessible. PMID 27706250.