Abstract

The southern Goiás state region of Central Brazil has an extensive and informative record of fossil biota. Particularly over the last five years, there has been a great increase in fossil finds, which has enabled a greater understanding of this region's fauna and flora during the Late Cretaceous. In this article, we provide an updated synthesis of the biota from the Cretaceous of the southern Goiás state, the record of plants, gastropods, turtles, crocodilians, titanosaurs, and theropod dinosaurs.

Highlights

  • Biota del Grupo Bauru del Cretácico Tardío del estado de Goiás Sur, Brasil: historia y contenido fósil

  • The southern Goiás state region is located in Central Brazil (Fig. 1), on the borders of the Triângulo Mineiro region (Minas Gerais State), northern Mato Grosso do Sul State, and eastern Mato Grosso State

  • Research history of the Upper Cretaceous of Goiás state and current status of investigations the Bauru Group outcrops occur across many areas of southern Goiás state, there is comparatively few published information on the fossils of the Adamantina and Marília formations in this region

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Biota del Grupo Bauru del Cretácico Tardío del estado de Goiás Sur, Brasil: historia y contenido fósil. The state of knowledge fauna of southern Goiás state and, recently, Basilici & DalBo (2010) and of Late Cretaceous fossils from the Bauru Group in southern Goiás state is Candeiro et al (2018) added other taxa to this inventory. These lists did limited when compared to the Triângulo Mineiro region and western São Paulo not consider the problematic history of the fossil record and uncertainties in

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