Piau-Caiçara tracksite (SOCA 4) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Piau Farm, Fazenda Piau, Leonardi locality 64

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.7° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sousa Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow, calcareous siltstone

• "siltite with calcareous cement; passes from chocolate colored in its upper part to yellowish or beige in its inferior; black glossy surfaces, brown when depleted"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1979-1981

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1984. Le impronte fossili di Dinosauri [The fossil footprints of dinosaurs]. In J. F. Bonaparte, E. H. Colbert, P. J. Currie, A/ J de Ricqlès, Z. Keilan-Jaworowska, G. Leonardi, F. Morello, P. Taquet (eds.), Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 164-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187909: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
SOCA 41
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Staurichnium cf. diogenis Leonardi 1979 ornithopod
SOCA 43, 46
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
SOCA 493, 47–49
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackways
 Theropoda - Eubrontidae
Eubrontidae indet. Lull 1904 theropod
SOCA 492/1-2