Abstract The region of Central Brazil has one of the most diverse records of carnivorous
dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of South America. The recent increase in discoveries …

The aim of this research is to understand the tectonic setting of the Bauru Basin. This basin
in central-eastern South America has been classified as intracratonic, but the basin-fill …

Abstract The Bauru Basin was one of the great Cretaceous desert basins of the world,
evolved in arid zone called Southern Hot Arid Belt. Its paleobiological record consists mainly …

The family Podocnemididae consists of 20 genera and 30 species considered here as valid
and diagnosable by cranial characters. Three of these genera and eight species persist into …

Noasaurines form an enigmatic group of small-bodied predatory theropod dinosaurs known
from the Late Cretaceous of Gondwana. They are relatively rare, with notable records in …

Abstract The Late Cretaceous Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Bauru Basin) is a geological
unit that occurs on São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, and Mato Grosso do Sul states, Brazil …

The Bauru Basin of SE Brazil is a large (ca. 370,000 km2) Upper Cretaceous intracratonic
feature, important for its fossil remains and of particular value as a source of regional …

The Baurusuchidae crocodyliforms are usually interpreted as active terrestrial predators, but
only some positive evidence of such habits has been described to date, mainly the relative …

We summarize here the Late Cretaceous vertebrate record of the Triângulo Mineiro (western
portion of the Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil). All the specimens come from the …

The record of dinosaur body-fossils in the Brazilian Mesozoic is restricted to the Triassic of
Rio Grande do Sul and Cretaceous of various parts of the country. This includes 21 named …