lower Engenho Novo tracksite (ANEN): Berriasian - Hauterivian, Brazil
collected by dos Santos, Leonardi 1984–1985, 1987
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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| ANEN 23 (tridactyl print) | ||||||||||
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= ? Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ANEN 1 | ||||||||||
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= cf. Anchisauripus sp.
Lull 1904
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Leonardi 1994 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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22 individuals | |||||||||
| ANEN 2–5, 7, 9, 11–17, 19–22, 24, 26–27 | ||||||||||
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= Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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Leonardi 1994 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ANEN 10 | ||||||||||
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? Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ANEN 8 | ||||||||||
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= Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Paraíba |
| Coordinates: | 6.7° South, 38.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° South, 5.5° 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: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: not far from boundary between Sousa and Antenor Navarro Fms. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,brown sandy siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "reddish colored sandstone"; "siltstone to fine sandstone of light chocolate color and a little crumbly. The upper surface of the bed presents some ripple marks" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: lacustrine, semi-arid climate, temporary lakes | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| 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: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Rock censused: | 200000 cm2 (area) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | dos Santos, Leonardi | Collection dates: | 1984–1985, 1987 |
| Collection method comments: 100 x 20 m area | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Leonardi locality 72 | ||
| Database number: | 58798 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-24 06:47:19 | Last modified: | 2022-09-12 14:41:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-24 06:47:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37117. | M. F. C. dos Santos and C. L. A. Santos. 1987. Sobre a ocorrência de pegadas e pistas de dinossauros na localidade Engenho Novo, Antenor Navarro, Paraíba, Brasil (Grupo do Rio Peixe, Cretáceo Inferior) [On an occurrence of dinosaur tracks and trackways in the Engenho Novo locality, Antenor Navarro, Paraíba, Brazil (Rio do Peixe Group, Lower Cretaceous)]. Anais do X Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia, 19-25 Julho, 1987, Rio de Janeiro. Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia 1:353-366 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |