Feliz Deserto Formation

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Feliz Deserto Formation
Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Valanginian
~145–132  Ma
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Sergipe-Alagoas Basin of Northeastern Brazil
CountryFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Type section
Named for Feliz Deserto

The Feliz Deserto Formation is a geologic formation of the Early Cretaceous age (Berriasian to Valanginian) in northeastern Brazil's Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The formation belongs to the rift phase, in which a great lake formed. [1]

Background

The formation provided fossils of bivalve and gastropod molluscs, vertebrate remains of Lepidotes fish and teeth of crocodylomorphs and spinosaurids, the oldest of the family reported in South America. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 ARAGÃO, PAULO (2021). "DENTES FÓSSEIS DE ARCOSSAUROS DA FORMAÇÃO FELIZ DESERTO (CRETÁCEO INFERIOR), BACIA DE SERGIPE-ALAGOAS". Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Sergipe.
  2. Sales, Marcos A. F.; Liparini, Alexandre; De Andrade, Marco (2017). "The oldest South American occurrence of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences . 74: 83–88. Bibcode:2017JSAES..74...83S. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2016.10.005 via Elsevier Science Direct.