Curral Velho tracksite (SOCV): Late/Upper Berriasian - Barremian, Brazil
collected by G. Leonardi 1979
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
| SOCV 3, 5 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| SOCV 8–10 | ||||||||||
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= Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Leonardi 1985 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
| SOCV 4, 11, 15 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| SOCV 1, 2, 6, 7 | ||||||||||
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= Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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Leonardi 1985 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Paraíba |
| Coordinates: | 6.8° South, 38.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.9° South, 5.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 140.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rio do Peixe | Formation: | Rio Piranhas |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "coarse sandstone, pink colored, in thick irregular levels with conglomerate beds; or fine conglomerates. Rare silt and mud intercalations, sometimes with mud cracks and ripple marks." | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
| Geology comments: "alluvial fans near the source, hot and semi-arid paleoclimate." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| 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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Leonardi locality 74, Fazenda Caboge, Caboje | ||
| Database number: | 58794 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-24 06:43:49 | Last modified: | 2022-09-12 15:39:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-24 06:43:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 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] |
| 16681 | ETE | 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] |