São Romão tracksite (ORSR) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 75

Where: Ceará, Brazil (6.4° S, 39.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 6.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quixoá Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• originally "lowermost section" of Antenor Navarro Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; siltstone and medium-grained, gray, yellow sandstone

• alluvial fan in a braided fluvial system
• "medium alluvial sandstones, grayish to yellowish color."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Leonardi, Muniz, & do Valle in 1981

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by Giuseppe Leonardi with Geraldo da Costa Barros Muniz and Lenice do Valle

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67233: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
ORSR 5-7; small bipedal dinosaur
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur
ORSR 1-4, 9, 11-12
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
aff. Staurichnium diogenis Leonardi 1979 ornithopod
ORSR 8; "close to..."