Piau-Caiçara tracksite (SOCA 9 bis): Berriasian - Hauterivian, Brazil
collected by G. Leonardi 1979-1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Godoy and Leonardi 1985 | |||||||||
| "small animals, 3 or 4 digits" | ||||||||||
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? Coelurosauria indet.
(Huene 1914)
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| 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 - 125.77000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rio do Peixe | Formation: | Sousa |
| Local section: | SOCA | Local bed: | 22 |
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks,brown,gray siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Siltite of dark gray to brown color, with reddish, pink, or green spots, with contraction cracks" | |
| 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: | 187916 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-08-16 16:50:17 | Last modified: | 2022-09-12 14:38:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-16 16:50:17 |
| 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] | |
| 14677 | ETE | G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/E. Dunne] |
| 82504 | G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2021. Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana xv-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |