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Bahia Group

The Bahia Group, also known as Bahia Series, is an Early Cretaceous geologic group of the Recôncavo Basin in Bahia, Brazil dating back to the Valanginian and Hauterivian. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from unit, including those of the ornithopod Tietasaura from the Marfim Formation. The conglomerates were deposited in an estuarine environment.

Fossil content

Ornithischians

Sauropods

Theropods

Pterosaurs

Crocodylomorphs

Turtles

Fish

Molluscs

Bivalves

See also

References

Bibliography

Further reading

  • J. Mawson and A. S. Woodward. 1907. On the Cretaceous formation of Bahia (Brazil), and on vertebrate fossils collected therein. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 63:128-139