Cianorte tracksite (CICC) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 78

Where: Paraná, Brazil (23.7° S, 52.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caiuá Group, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• originally a formation within the Bauru Group; lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dune; fine-grained, medium, red sandstone

• "desert with dunes"
• "feldspar, eolian sandstone, reddish in color, fine to medium granulation."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1977

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1977. Two new ichnofaunas (vertebrates and invertebrates) in the eolian Cretaceous sandstones of the Caiuá Formation in northwest Paraná. Atas do I Simpósio de Geologia Regional 112-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85829: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
? Carnosauria indet.1
? Carnosauria indet.1 carnosaur
CICC 1; two tracks in sequence; "coelurosaurs or more probably to carnosaurs"
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.1
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Chelichnopodidae
Brasilichnium elusivum2
Brasilichnium elusivum2 Leonardi 1981 synapsid
or "small therapsid reptiles"
1Leonardi 1989; 2Leonardi 1994