Multi‐scale transgressive–regressive cycles from the mid‐Jurassic were recognised in the Central Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. These cycles allow the depositional evolution of the basin to be better understood and aid in the construction of stratigraphic sequences composed of three hierarchies. The stacking pattern of high‐frequency transgressive–regressive sequences forms larger clusters that define medium‐frequency transgressive–regressive sequences. Likewise, the stacking pattern of medium‐frequency transgressive–regressive sequences generates two Bathonian–early Callovian low‐frequency transgressive–regressive sequences. Integration of several methods supported the interpretation of facies associations representing clastic deposition in offshore to shoreface environments and carbonate sediments in outer to inner ramp settings. New data from calcareous nannofossils and dinoflagellate assemblages constrained the interval's Bathonian–early Callovian age, thus unveiling the Middle–Upper Jurassic disconformity and filling the Middle Jurassic stratigraphic record gap in the Central Lusitanian Basin. This study may be helpful for similar successions in Tethyan domains and comparable depositional settings elsewhere.

The aim of this research is to understand the tectonic setting of the Bauru Basin. This basin in centraleastern South America has been classified as intracratonic, but the basin-fill geometry, the involved subsidence mechanisms and the age of the deposits are poorly understood. In this work, the ranges of the fossil taxa are analyzed and ages are proposed for the lithostratigraphic units. Isopach maps were used to reconstruct the stratigraphic intervals of the basin fill. The stratigraphy of the Bauru Basin is compared with that of the adjacent basins, and the data are integrated with the available information on South American geodynamics. The fossil record indicates that sediment accumulated from the Cenomanian to early Paleocene, beginning after the Mochica Phase of the Andean orogeny. The basin-fill geometry demonstrates migration of the depocenter through time, which occurred simultaneously with migration of the Andean Basin and immediately after the orogenic events of the Peruvian Phase. We propose that the Bauru Basin is a component of a retroarc foreland system developed during the early stages of the Andean evolution and that it was developed in the back-bulge province of this system. The Andean Basin constitutes the foredeep depozone of this foreland system (including the Potosí, Oriente, Acre and Marañon basins). In addition, the Upper Cretaceous of the Parecis and Solimões basins were likely also developed in the back-bulge province. The thickness of the Bauru accumulation indicates that other mechanisms might have overlapped the flexural subsidence in this back-bulge province.

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