Poço da Volta tracksite (ANPV) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Araçá de Cima, Leonardi locality 71

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.8° S, 38.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 5.5° 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, gray 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."

•"dark gray siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1984

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58797: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
ANPV 2, "roundish footprint"
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
ANPV 1, plus 6 additional tracks discovered later