Exu Formation

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| name = Exu Formation

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| type = Geological formation

| period = Albian

| age = Albian

| prilithology = Sandstone

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| region = Piauí

| country = Brazil

| coordinates = {{coord|7.6|S|40.7|W|display=inline,title}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|12.6|S|12.1|W|display=inline}}

| unitof = Araripe Group

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| underlies = Alluvium

| overlies = Santana Group
 Romualdo Formation

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| extent = Araripe Basin

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| width = 250

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{{Location map~ | Brazil

| lat_deg = -7.6

| lon_deg = -40.7

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The Exu Formation is an Albian geologic formation in Brazil. Pterosaur fossils of Lophocratia indet. have been recovered from the formation.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=89973 Chapada do Araripe] at Fossilworks.org

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{citation |last1=Fabin |first1=Carlos E. |last2=Correia Filho |first2=Osvaldo J. |last3=Alencar |first3=Márcio L. |last4=Barbosa |first4=José A. |last5=de Miranda |first5=Tiago S. |last6=Neumann |first6=Virgínio H. |last7=Gomes |first7=Igor F. |last8=de Santana |first8=Felipe R. |year=2018 |title=Stratigraphic Relations of the Ipubi Formation: Siliciclastic-Evaporitic Succession of the Araripe Basin |url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v90n2s1/0001-3765-aabc-201820170526.pdf |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |volume=90 |issue=2 suppl 1 |pages=2049–2071 |doi=10.1590/0001-3765201820170526 |pmid=29947671 |accessdate=2018-10-05}}
  • {{citation |last=Martill |first=D. M |year=2008 |title=First pterosaur remains from the Exu Formation (Cretaceous) of the Araripe Basin, Brazil |journal=Zitteliana B |volume=28 |pages=243–248}}

Category:Geologic formations of Brazil

Category:Lower Cretaceous Series of South America

Category:Cretaceous Brazil

Category:Albian Stage

Category:Sandstone formations

Category:Fluvial deposits

Formations