Passagem das Pedras (SOPP) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Fazenda Ilha Farm, Passagem do Pedra, Leonardi locality 63

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.7° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 5.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sousa Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 129.4 Ma)

• 7 track-bearing levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; black, gray, green siltstone and sandstone

• alluvial fan in a lacustrine environment; hot, semi-arid climate. Temporary lakes.
• "alternate dark gray or gray-green to black siltstone, with mud cracks, ripple marks, and mudstone and reddish shales."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Moraes, Price, Campos, Leonardi in 1924, 1969, 1975-

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1930. Terrestrische Oberkreide im zentralen Südamerika [Terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in central South America]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B: Geologie und Paläontologie 1930(5):177-181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56463: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
isolated tracks, levels 5, 7, 8, SOPP 10
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.2 Seeley 1888 ornithischian
SOPP 15, 21
Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
SOPP 17, 19
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Staurichnium diogenis n. gen. n. sp.1, Sousaichnium pricei n. gen. n. sp.1
Staurichnium diogenis n. gen. n. sp.1 Leonardi 1979 ornithopod
SOPP 6
Sousaichnium pricei n. gen. n. sp.1 Leonardi 1979 ornithopod
SOPP 1 (SOPP A)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
SOPP 13, 18
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
SOPP 7–8, 11, 14, 20
cf. Moraesichnium barberenae2 Leonardi 1979 theropod
SOPP 9
Moraesichnium barberenae n. gen. n. sp.1 Leonardi 1979 theropod
SOPP 2 (SOPP B), 3 (SOPP C), 4 (SOPP D) 5 (SOPP E), 12
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Conchostraca indet.1 Sars 1867 clam shrimp
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 ostracod