Serrote do Letreiro (SOSL), level A (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 60, Serrote do Letreiros

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.7° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Antenor Navarro Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• originally thought to be Late Triassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; burrowed, fine-grained, red sandstone and yellow sandstone

• "very coarse and yellowish sandstone with conglomerate beds. The surface of the layers is a finer material, with orange colored surface."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1977-1979

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1979. New archosaurian trackways from the Rio do Peixe basin, Paraíba, Brazil. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara (Nuova Serie). Sezione IX – Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche 5(14):239-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56557: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.2
Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
SOSL 1
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.1, Coelurosauria indet.1, Coelurosauria indet.1, Coelurosauria indet.1
Coelurosauria indet.1 coelurosaur
SOSL 2
Coelurosauria indet.1 coelurosaur
SOSL 3; "or some incomplete dinosaurian footprints"
Coelurosauria indet.1 coelurosaur
SOSL 4-5, 40–44, 4999; small Grallator or large Eubrontes/Coelurosauria or Carnosauria
Coelurosauria indet.1 coelurosaur
SOSL 6-7, 9-10
1Carvalho 2000; 2Leonardi and Carvalho 2021