Caiuá Formation

Caiuá Formation
Stratigraphic range: Barremian-Aptian ~130–120 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Bauru Group
Underlies	Santo Anastácio Formation
Overlies	Serra Geral Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	22°00′S 53°00′W / 22.0°S 53.0°W / -22.0; -53.0
Region	Paraná
Country	Brazil  Paraguay
Extent	Paraná Basin
Caiuá Formation (Brazil)

The Caiuá Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil and Paraguay. Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.^[1] The formation, the lowermost unit of the Bauru Group, was deposited in the Barremian and Aptian epochs of the Early Cretaceous, around 130 to 120 Ma. The formation is unconformably overlain by the Santo Anastácio Formation and the unconformity probably represents the start of the opening of the South Atlantic and the formation of the Santos Basin.^[2]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with theropod tracks
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Paraguay

References

Bibliography

• Brusatte, Stephen L.; Candeiro, Carolos R.A.; Simbras, Felipe M. (2017), "The Last Dinosaurs of Brazil: The Bauru Group and its implications for the end of the Cretaceous mass extinction", Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 89 (3): 1465–1485, doi:10.1590/0001-3765201720160918, PMID 28954171, retrieved 2019-02-21
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21