Also known as Malhada Vermelha; Leonardi locality 77
Where: Ceará, Brazil (6.3° S, 39.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 6.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Malhada Vermelha Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; fine-grained, red, blue sandstone
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 67234: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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