Noasaurid theropod (Abelisauria) femur from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group in Triângulo Mineiro (Southeastern Brazil).
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2019
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A new record of noasaurid theropod (Dinosauria, Abelisauria) is here described and compared, including
the description of its microstructure. It consists of an almost complete femur of small size (132 mm of
preserved length) discovered in 2014 in a new locality at Campina Verde Municipality, Minas Gerais
state, Brazil. The new locality is named Fazenda Seis Irm~
aos-Grotas and has also provided thousands of
ostracods, few fish remains, and a partial skeleton of an indeterminate baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian.
The bearing-fossil sedimentary sequence is referred to the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Bauru
Basin). The femur here presented represents the second putative occurrence of an unusual small-sized
noasaurid abelisaur for the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group.
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Dinosauria, Theropoda, Noasauridae, Adamantina formation, Minas Gerais state
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MARTINELLI, A. G. et al. Noasaurid theropod (Abelisauria) femur from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group in Triângulo Mineiro (Southeastern Brazil). Cretaceous Research, v. 104, p. 104181, dez. 2019. Disponível em: <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667119301752?via%3Dihub>. Acesso em: 10 mar. 2020.