Fazenda Piedade tracksite (SOPI): Berriasian - Hauterivian, Brazil
collected by G. Leonardi 1977

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 2 individuals
SOPI 4, 7
Reptilia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
Leonardi 1994 1 individual
SOPI 3
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
4 specimens
SOPI 1, 2, 5, 6
    = Eubrontes cf. platypus Hitchcock 1858
Leonardi 1980
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 3 track-bearing levels:
lower: SOPI 4
middle: SOPI 1, 2, 5–7
upper: SOPI 3
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,wave ripples,black,gray,green siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "alternate dark gray or gray-green to black siltstone, with mud cracks, ripple marks, and mudstone and reddish shales."
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: lacustrine, semi-arid climate, temporary lakes
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:G. Leonardi Collection dates:1977
Metadata
Also known as:Leonardi locality 65
Database number:58787
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-24 06:29:28 Last modified:2022-09-12 14:41:24
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-24 06:29:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43047. 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]

Secondary references:

46414 G. Leonardi. 1980. Dez novas pistas de dinossauros (Theropoda Marsh, 1881) na Bacia do Rio do Peixe, Parana, Brasil [New dinosaur trackways (Theropoda Marsh, 1881) from the Rio do Peixe Basin, Parana, Brazil]. Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología, Buenos Aires 1:242-248 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62875 G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53041 G. Leonardi. 1985. Vale dos Dinossauros: uma janela na noite dos tempos [Valley of the Dinosaurs: a window into the night of the times]. Revista Brasiliense de Tecnologia 16(1):23-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59104 G. Leonardi. 1989. Inventory and statistics of the South American dinosaurian ichnofauna and its paleobiological interpretation. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 165-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14677ETE 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]
16681ETE G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2002. Icnofósseis da Bacia do Rio do Peixe, PB: o mais marcante registro de pegadas de dinossauros do Brasil [Ichnofossils of the Rio do Peixe Basin, PB: the most remarkable record of dinosaur tracks from Brazil]. C. Schobbenhaus, D. d. A. Campos, E. T. Queiroz, M. Winge, & M. Berbert-Born (eds.), Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil. SIGEP, Brasilia 101-111 [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]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]