São Domingos tracksite (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 59, Tocantins River, Itaguatins

Where: Tocantins, Brazil (5.7° S, 47.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 14.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corda Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• pre-Albian Lower Cretaceous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; coarse-grained, red sandstone

• floodplain, "oxidant environment"
• "coarse sandstone of purple or pinkish color"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by L. I. Price, G. Leonardi in 1966, 1977

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. Barbosa, J. R. de Andrade Ramos, F. Andrade Gomes and R. Helmbold. 1966. Geologia estratigráfica, estrutural e econômica da área do “Projeto Araguaia” [Stratigraphic, structural, and economic geology of the “Araguaia Project” area]. Ministério das Minas e Energia, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia, Monografia 19:1-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56556: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.1 ornithischian
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.2 sauropod
original ID Iguanodontidae