A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group

In the last three decades, records of tribosphenidan mammals from India, continental Africa, Madagascar and South America have challenged the notion of a strictly Laurasian distribution of the group during the Cretaceous. Here, we describe a lower premolar from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formati...

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Autores principales: Cordeiro de Castro, Mariela, Goin, Francisco Javier, Ortiz Jaureguizar, Edgardo, Vieytes, Emma Carolina, Tsukui, Kaori, Ramezani, Jahandar, Batezelli, Alessandro, Marsola, Júlio C. A., Langer, Max C.
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Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107596
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Cordeiro de Castro, Mariela
Goin, Francisco Javier
Ortiz Jaureguizar, Edgardo
Vieytes, Emma Carolina
Tsukui, Kaori
Ramezani, Jahandar
Batezelli, Alessandro
Marsola, Júlio C. A.
Langer, Max C.
A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
topic_facet Ciencias Naturales
description In the last three decades, records of tribosphenidan mammals from India, continental Africa, Madagascar and South America have challenged the notion of a strictly Laurasian distribution of the group during the Cretaceous. Here, we describe a lower premolar from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, São Paulo State, Brazil. It differs from all known fossil mammals, except for a putative eutherian from the same geologic unity and Deccanolestes hislopi, from the Maastrichtian of India. The incompleteness of the material precludes narrowing down its taxonomic attribution further than Tribosphenida, but it is larger than most coeval mammals and shows a thin layer of parallel crystallite enamel. The new taxon helps filling two major gaps in the fossil record: the paucity of Mesozoic mammals in more northern parts of South America and of tribosphenidans in the Cretaceous of that continent. In addition, high-precision U-Pb geochronology provided a post-Turonian maximal age (≤87.8 Ma) for the type stratum, which is overlain by the dinosaur-bearing Marília Formation, constraining the age of the Adamantina Formation at the site to late Coniacian–late Maastrichtian. This represents the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group, a key stratigraphic unit for the study of Cretaceous tetrapods in Gondwana.
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author Cordeiro de Castro, Mariela
Goin, Francisco Javier
Ortiz Jaureguizar, Edgardo
Vieytes, Emma Carolina
Tsukui, Kaori
Ramezani, Jahandar
Batezelli, Alessandro
Marsola, Júlio C. A.
Langer, Max C.
author_facet Cordeiro de Castro, Mariela
Goin, Francisco Javier
Ortiz Jaureguizar, Edgardo
Vieytes, Emma Carolina
Tsukui, Kaori
Ramezani, Jahandar
Batezelli, Alessandro
Marsola, Júlio C. A.
Langer, Max C.
author_sort Cordeiro de Castro, Mariela
title A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
title_short A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
title_full A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
title_fullStr A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
title_full_unstemmed A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group
title_sort late cretaceous mammal from brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the bauru group
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url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107596
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