Matadouro municipal tracksite, Sousa (SOMA) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 67

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.8° S, 38.2° 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, brown siltstone

• lacustrine, semi-arid climate, temporary lakes
• "alternate dark gray or gray-green to black siltstone, with mud cracks, ripple marks, and mudstone and reddish shales."

•"Three contiguous layers of chocolate-colored siltstones...The track-bearing level has primary and secondary mud cracks."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1979

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58791: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
SOMA 3, 4
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
SOMA 1, 2