Mãe d'Água tracksite (SOMD) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 74, Mae d'Agua, Fazenda Caboge, Caboje

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.8° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rio Piranhas Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Late/Upper Berriasian to Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; coarse-grained, red sandstone

• "alluvial fans near the source, hot and semi-arid paleoclimate."
• "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."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1979, 2003

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 58793: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
SOMD 2, 7
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.1
Ornithopoda indet.1 ornithopod
SOMD 1, 3, 4, 8–10
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.2
Sauropoda indet.2 sauropod
SOMD 5, 6
1Leonardi 1994; 2Leonardi and Dos Santos 2006