Piau-Caiçara tracksite (SOCA 4): Berriasian - Hauterivian, Brazil
collected by G. Leonardi 1979-1981

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 individual
SOCA 41
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Staurichnium cf. diogenis Leonardi 1979
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021
nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontipodidae
SOCA 43, 46
Reptilia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
1 individual
Reptilia
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
5 individuals
trackways
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
10 specimens
SOCA 493, 47–49
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021
Reptilia - Eubrontidae
Eubrontidae indet. Lull 1904
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 1 individual
SOCA 492/1-2
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Paraíba
Coordinates: 6.7° South, 38.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° South, 5.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Berriasian - Hauterivian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 129.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rio do Peixe Formation:Sousa
Local section:SOCA Local bed:43
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,yellow calcareous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "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"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:G. Leonardi Collection dates:1979-1981
Metadata
Also known as:Piau Farm, Fazenda Piau, Leonardi locality 64
Database number:187909
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-08-16 16:37:12 Last modified:2022-09-12 14:39:43
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-16 16:37:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62874. 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]

Secondary references:

63069 L. C. Godoy and G. Leonardi. 1985. Direçóes e comportamento dos dinossauros da localidade Piau, Sousa, Paraíba (Brasil), Formaçáo Sousa (Cretáceo Inferior) [Directions and behavior of the dinosaurs from the Piau locality, Sousa, Paraíba (Brazil), Sousa Formation (Lower Cretaceous)]. Coletânea de Trabalhos Paleontológicos, Série “Geologia” (Seção Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, 2) 27:65-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82504 G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2021. Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana xv-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]