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
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 individual | |||||||||
SOCA 41 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanodontipodidae
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Staurichnium cf. diogenis
Leonardi 1979
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontipodidae | ||||||||||
SOCA 43, 46 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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1 individual | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Coelurosauria indet.
(Huene 1914)
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5 individuals | |||||||||
trackways | ||||||||||
= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | |||||||||
Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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10 specimens | |||||||||
SOCA 493, 47–49 | ||||||||||
= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Eubrontidae
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Eubrontidae indet.
Lull 1904
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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] |