Passagem das Pedras (SOPP): Berriasian - Hauterivian, Brazil
collected by Moraes, Price, Campos, Leonardi 1924, 1969, 1975-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Branchiopoda - Diplostraca
Leonardi 1979
Ostracoda
Leonardi 1979
Reptilia
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 5 specimens
isolated tracks, levels 5, 7, 8, SOPP 10
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 2 individuals
SOPP 15, 21
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 2 individuals
SOPP 17, 19
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Huene 1931 1 individual
SOPP 1 (SOPP A)
    = Sousaichnium pricei n. gen., n. sp. Leonardi 1979
Leonardi 1979
Leonardi 1979 1 individual
SOPP 6
Reptilia
6 individuals
SOPP 7–8, 11, 14, 20
Leonardi 1994
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021
2 specimens
SOPP 13, 18
Leonardi 1994
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021
5 individuals
SOPP 2 (SOPP B), 3 (SOPP C), 4 (SOPP D) 5 (SOPP E), 12
Huene 1931
"Trachodontidae or Kalodontidae"
    = Moraesichnium barberenae n. gen., n. sp. Leonardi 1979
Leonardi 1979
Leonardi and Carvalho 2021 1 individual
SOPP 9
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Paraíba
Coordinates: 6.7° South, 38.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.8° South, 3.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:255 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian - Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1 - Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Berriasian - Hauterivian
Age range of interval: 143.1 - 125.77 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rio do Peixe Formation:Sousa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 7 track-bearing levels
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,wave ripples,black,gray,green siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "alternate dark gray or gray-green to black siltstone, with mud cracks, ripple marks, and mudstone and reddish shales."
Environment:alluvial fan
Geology comments: alluvial fan in a lacustrine environment; hot, semi-arid climate. Temporary lakes.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:common
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Moraes, Price, Campos, Leonardi Collection dates:1924, 1969, 1975-
Metadata
Also known as:Fazenda Ilha Farm, Passagem do Pedra, Leonardi locality 63
Database number:56463
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano
Created:2005-11-18 14:28:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-18 14:28:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
59628. F. v. Huene. 1930. Terrestrische Oberkreide im zentralen Südamerika [Terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in central South America]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B: Geologie und Paläontologie 1930(5):177-181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19206ETE I. d. S. Carvalho. 2000. Geological environments of dinosaur footprints in the intracratonic basins of northeast Brazil during the Early Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic. Cretaceous Research 21(2-3):255-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56188 I. d. S. Carvalho. 2004. Dinosaur footprints from northeastern Brazil: taphonomy and environmental setting. Ichnos 11(3–4):311-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79689 I. d. S. Carvalho, L. Borghi, and G. Leonardi. 2013. Preservation of dinosaur tracks induced by microbial mats in the Sousa Basin (Lower Cretaceous), Brazil. Cretaceous Research 44:112-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18505ETE F. v. Huene. 1931. Verschiedene mesozoische Wirbeltierreste aus Südamerika [Different Mesozoic vertebrate remains from South America]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung A 66:181-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13838ETE A. W. A. Kellner and D. d. A. Campos. 2000. Brief review of dinosaur studies and perspectives in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 72(4):509-538 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15205ETE G. Leonardi. 1979. Nota preliminar sobre seis pistas de dinossauros Ornithischia da Bacia do Rio do Peixe, em Sousa, Paraíba, Brasil [Preliminary note on six Ornithischia dinosaur trackways from Bacia do Rio do Peixe, in Sousa, Paraíba, Brazil]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 51(3):501-516 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43047 G. Leonardi. 1979. New archosaurian trackways from the Rio do Peixe basin, Paraíba, Brazil. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara (Nuova Serie). Sezione IX – Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche 5(14):239-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62880 G. Leonardi. 1979. A Comparative Glossary of Vertebrate Ichnology in Portuguese and the History of this Science in Brazil. Cadernos Universitários 17:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62875 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]
15227ETE G. Leonardi. 1981. Ichnological data on the rarity of young in north east Brazil dinosaurian populations. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 53(2):345-346 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53041 G. Leonardi. 1985. Vale dos Dinossauros: uma janela na noite dos tempos [Valley of the Dinosaurs: a window into the night of the times]. Revista Brasiliense de Tecnologia 16(1):23-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59104 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]
14677ETE G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/E. Dunne]
78659 G. Leonardi. 1997. Problematica actual de las icnitas de dinosaurios [Current problem of dinosaur ichnites]. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 10(3-4):341-353 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16681ETE G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2002. Icnofósseis da Bacia do Rio do Peixe, PB: o mais marcante registro de pegadas de dinossauros do Brasil [Ichnofossils of the Rio do Peixe Basin, PB: the most remarkable record of dinosaur tracks from Brazil]. C. Schobbenhaus, D. d. A. Campos, E. T. Queiroz, M. Winge, & M. Berbert-Born (eds.), Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil. SIGEP, Brasilia 101-111 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82504 G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2021. Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana xv-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19798ETE G. Leonardi and M. F. C. Dos Santos. 2006. New dinosaur tracksites from the Sousa Lower Cretaceous Basin (Paraíba, Brasil). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 81:5-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]