“…The Areado Group is especially no ceable due to its fossil record. The paleobiota of the Quiricó Forma on includes so far charophytes, con nental palynomorphs, g y m n o s p e r m s a n d a n g i o s p e r m s , o s t r a c o d s , ' c o n c h o s t r a c a n s ' , i n s e c t s , e l a s m o b r a n c h s , ac nopterygians, the coelacanthiform Mawsonia and dinosaurs (Scorza & Silva Santos, 1955;Barbosa, 1965;Cardoso, 1971;Santos, 1971;Lima, 1979;Silva Santos, 1985;Mar ns-Neto, 1996;Duarte, 1997;Carvalho & Ka ah, 1998;do Carmo et al, 2004;Carvalho & Maisey, 2008;Zaher et al, 2011;Bi encourt et al, 2015Bi encourt et al, , 2018Carvalho & Santucci, 2018;Leite et al, 2018). Fossils recovered from the Três Barras Forma on include enigma c marine microfossils, notably radiolarians, in very restricted horizons (Ka ah & Koutsoukos, 1992;Pessagno Jr. & Dias-Brito, 1996;Dias-Brito et al, 1999), and dinosaur footprints (Carvalho & Ka ah, 1998).…”