Cuchilla de la Pesuñas del Venado, Oiba: Early/Lower Cretaceous, Colombia
collected by C. Degenhardt 1839

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
"bird footprints"
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Buffetaut 2000
"bipedal dinosaur footprints"
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Santander
Coordinates: 6.3° North, 73.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.3° North, 42.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:5000 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1-4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Lithology description: ":ed sandstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
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:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:C. Degenhardt Collection dates:1839
Metadata
Also known as:Oiva
Database number:112192
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-07-06 06:16:55 Last modified:2022-06-17 15:25:26
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-06 06:16:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36616.ETE C. Degenhardt. 1840. [Degenhardt entdeckte unfern Oiva, Provinz Socorro in Mexico] [Degenhardt discovered close to Oiva, Socorro province in Mexico]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfaktenkunde 1840(1):485 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36618ETE E. Buffetaut. 2000. A forgotten episode in the history of dinosaur ichnology: Carl Degenhardt's report on the first discovery of fossil footprints in South America (Colombia, 1839). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 171(1):137-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36617ETE C. Degenhardt. 1844. [M. Degenhardt annonce des impressions de pas d'oiseaux dans un grès rouge, sur le Québrada Paloblanco] [Mr. Degenhardt announces some footprints of birds in a red sandstone, on the Québrada Paloblanco]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 2e série 1:13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81945 J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez and H. E. Rivera-Sylva. 2014. History of the discoveries of dinosaurs and Mesozoic reptiles in Mexico. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77214 A. Mayor and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 2001. The folklore of footprints in stone: from classical antiquity to the present. Ichnos 8(2):143-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77008 M. Moreno-Sánchez, A. Gómez Cruz, and J. Gómez Tapias. 2011. Reporte de huellas de dinosaurios en el Santuario de Fauna y Flora de Iguaque, en cercanías de Chíquiza (Boyacá, Colombia) [Report of dinosaur tracks in the Iguaque Fauna and Flora Sanctuary, in the environs of Chiquiza (Boyacá, Colombia)]. Boletín de Geología 33(2):107-118 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77007 L. F. Noè, M. Gómez-Pérez, J. V. Rodríguez, A. Corrales-García, and W. G. Caranton-Mateus. 2020. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous, Batá Formation, Colombia (South America), and the possible interchange of large ornithopods between southern Laurasia and northern Gondwana. In J. M. Gómez & A. O. Pinilla-Pachon (ed.), The Geology of Colombia, Volume 2. Mesozoic. Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Publicaciones Geológicas Especiales 36:375-401 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68227 T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]