São Bento quarry, Araraquara (ARSB): Aptian, Brazil
collected by G. Leonardi, M. Fernandes 1976–1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Fernandes and Carvalho 2005
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Leonardi and Carvalho 2002
Chelichnopodidae
Brasilichnium elusivum n. sp. Leonardi 1981
Fernandes and Carvalho 2005 3 individuals
MNRJ 3902-V, 3903-V; IGSP; ARSB 62, 73, 97
Reptilia - Theropoda
Leonardi and Sarjeant 1986
includes footprints and urolites
Fernandes and Carvalho 2005
Reptilia
Leonardi and Godoy 1980 2 individuals
MPA-337 I-V; MPA-334
Fernandes and Carvalho 2005
unclassified
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
Leonardi and Carvalho 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:São Paulo
Coordinates: 21.8° South, 48.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.7° South, 6.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:725 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:São Bento Formation:Botucatu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",fine,red,white,yellow lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: eolian ripple mraks between crests of adjacent dunes; "The sandstone is fine-textured and well sorted, containing no pebbles; its colour is occasionally white, yellowish, and reddish, but more commonly it is pinkish. Nearly always it is silicified and therefore compact and hard."
Environment:dune
Geology comments: dune foresets
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:G. Leonardi, M. Fernandes Collection dates:1976–1980
Taxonomic list comments:supposed dinosaur urolites present as well; also invertebrate traces
Metadata
Also known as:Leonardi locality 50, Corpedras, Ouro
Database number:56560
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-21 07:17:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-21 07:17:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
15225.ETE G. Leonardi. 1980. On the discovery of an abundant ichno-fauna (vertebrates and invertebrates) in the Botucatu Formation s.s. in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 52(3):559-567 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17329ETE M. A. Fernandes and I. S. Carvalho. 2005. As pistas do paleodeserto Botucatu: aspectos preservacionais [The tracks of the Botucatu paleodesert: preservational aspects]. Resumos do XIX Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia e VI Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
90831 M. A. Fernandes and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2008. Novas pegadas de dinossauro Ornithopoda da Formação Botucatu, Bacia do Paraná, SP, Brasil [New ornithopod dinosaur footprints from the Botucatu Formation, Paraná Basin, SP, Brazil]. VI Simpósio Brasileiro de Paleontologia de Vertebrados. Paleontologia em Destaque 23(Ed.Es.):93-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34321ETE M. A. Fernandes, P. R. F. Souto, and L. B. R. Fernandes. 2003. Ocorrência de urólitos associados a dinossauros na Formação Botucatu, Eocretáceo da Bacia do Paraná, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil [Occurrence of urolites associated with dinosaurs in the Botucatu Formation, Early Cretaceous of the Paraná Basin, São Paulo State, Brazil]. XVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia: A Paleontologia e Suas Aplicações, 13-18 July 2003. Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia, Universidade de Brasília. Boletim de Resumos 126-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76789 H. Francischini, M. A. Fernandes, J. Kunzler, R. Rodrigues, G. Leonardi and I. S. Carvalho. 2020. The ichnological record of Araraquara sidewalks: history, conservation, and perspectives from this urban paleontological heritage of southeastern Brazil. Geoheritage 12(3) [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]
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]
38312 G. Leonardi and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2002. Jazigo icnofossilífero do Ouro – Araraquara (SP) [Ichnofossiliferous grave of Ouro – Araraquara (SP)]. In C. Schobbenhaus, D. d. A. Campos, E. T. Queiroz, M. Winge, M. Berbert-Born (eds.), Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil. SIGEP, Brasilia 39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69655 G. Leonardi and L. C. Godoy. 1980. Novas pistas de tetrápodes da Formação Botucatu no Estado de São Paulo [New tetrapod trackways from the Botucatu Formation in Sao Paulo state]. Anais do XXXI Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia 5:3080-3089 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15229ETE G. Leonardi and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1986. Footprints representing a new Mesozoic vertebrate fauna from Brazil. Modern Geology 10:73-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]